Advantage Quote by Sadakichi Hartmann

Photography is not easy. You know it takes a painter or a sculpture or a musician years to perfect their technique. Then they're free…

— Paul Caponigro

Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to…

— Walker Evans

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him…

— Brooks Atkinson

To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes…

— Michael Snow

Photography does not form a separate, barren field of art. It is only a means of execution, uniform, rapid and sure, which serves the…

— Charles Negre

Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his art. He…

— Edwin Land

Photography is to the layman perhaps the most enticing art. As a buff and a follower, at a respectful distance, I find myself like…

— Norman Corwin

In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In the fulfillment…

— Edward Weston

Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and…

— Ralph Gibson

One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself.…

— Carl Mydans

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from…

— Ralph Gibson