Children Quote by Robert Adams

Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.

— Tom Waits

Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of…

— Sam Abell

Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years…

— Anonymous

I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of…

— Edward Burtynsky

Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for our lives...…

— Edmundo Desnoes

Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.

— Errol Morris

There are many photographs which are full of life but which are confusing and difficult to remember. It is the force of an image…

— Brassai

I have gradually confused photography with life.

— Jerry Uelsmann

The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of the past,…

— Peter Wollen

It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding…

— Luke Davies

Given the lack of public skills in reading photographs, given that photographic content is sometimes buried in beauty, contemporary landscape photographers are often condemned…

— Lucy R. Lippard

As a landscape photographer we should be open to possibilities, for one thing often leads to another.

— Michael Kenna