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To photograph is to confer importance.

— Susan Sontag

My pictures are never pre-visualized or planned. I feel strongly that pictures must come from contact with things at the time and place of…

— Wynn Bullock

Being a photographer is making people look at what I want them to look at.

— Ruth Orkin

Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in the most…

— Howard S. Becker

Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what…

— Eliot Porter

For all the textbook reasons - any individual's reading of a photograph is preceded by the evidential authority of the medium. You have the…

— Bill Henson

A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking.

— John Paul Caponigro

Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in the most…

— Howard S. Becker

As a rule I do not like to explain my photographs, I want my pictures to be read and explored. I believe a good…

— John Gutmann

The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.

— Anonymous

I find it satisfying that what I've done in photography has had so much influence in how people take photographs and what they look…

— William Klein

The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.

— David Burnett