Action Quote by Rudolf Arnheim

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory.

— Keith Carter

Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it proves so…

— Clement Greenberg

Every photograph is the result of a physical imprint transferred by light reflections onto a sensitive surface. The photograph is thus a type of…

— Rosalind E. Krauss

The photogram, or camera-less record of forms produced by light, which embodies the unique nature of the photographic process, is the real key to…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

The act of photography is that of phenomenological doubt to the extent that it attempts to approach phenomena from any number of viewpoints.

— Douglas Huebler

Photography is a bridge between science and art. It brings to science what it needs most, the artistic sense, and to art the proof…

— Ernst Haas

A photograph can, by the addition of an unimportant spot of color, become a photomontage, a work of art of a special kind.

— John Heartfield

... photography is an imprint or transfer off the real; it is a photochemically processed trace causally connected to the thing in the world…

— Rosalind E. Krauss

The images which the [press] photographer has filtered from reality, whether particular events or the anguish of human reactions to them, already bear a…

— Yukio Mishima

Photography is a process

— Nigel McKain