Has beens Quote by Roland Barthes

Photography is an ambiguous challenge to chance.

— Guy Le Querrec

What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms... He pursues them into their last refuges and surprises…

— Brassai

A photograph must be more interesting than the thing photographed

— Gary Winogrand

Once a photographer is convinced that the camera can lie and that, strictly speaking, the vast majority of photographs are camera lies, inasmuch as…

— Andreas Feininger

The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope.…

— Robert Adams

Photography acts as a teaser, suggesting we can know something that we can never know. And the more we can't obtain it, the more…

— Alison Jackson

Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must…

— Henri Matisse

A creative photographer is one who either captures mystery or reveals things, everything else is useless

— Raghu Rai

... the possibility of one particular photographer's pictures lying around the corner is never realized until the photographer is there. It's one of the…

— Alex Webb

The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it is precisely…

— Paul Strand

Every successful photograph, except for lucky shots, begins with an idea and a plan. The more precisely a photographer knows what it is he…

— Andreas Feininger

As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.

— Rineke Dijkstra