Compromise Quote by Roger Deakins

I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.

— Alvin Langdon Coburn

Don't let the difficulty of actually achieving a shot make you think that the shot is good.

— Sidney Lumet

Subject matter comes to you, you don't go to it... Although I shoot extemporaneously a lot of the time, I prefer to have half…

— Max Dupain

It's far better to shoot a good picture than a good-looking picture.

— Robert Richardson

The only thing that gets in the way of a really good photograph, is the camera

— Norman Parkinson

We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then…

— Gerhard Richter

In fact, our need to feel like big shots keeps us wedded to inadequate perspectives on the world, keeps us from exploring and dealing…

— David Wong

Increasingly as I've gotten older, I'm much more interested in what the reality of the shoot is going to be versus what the result…

— Max Minghella

Every shot is unique, even if it's just a close-up, an insert of your hand. You've got to work with the guy behind the…

— Robert Forster

I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head.

— Jack Nicklaus

I think my pictures are really about a kind of tension between my need to make a perfect picture and the impossibility of doing…

— Gregory Crewdson