Colorful Quote by Sam Abell

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to…

— Ansel Adams

Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different…

— Tibor Kalman

I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph.

— Stephen Shore

To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult…

— Ansel Adams

Taking photographs seems to be a means to express some kind of emotional, abstractive narrative. I look at the images that I'm most proud…

— Anton Yelchin

I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.

— Garry Winogrand

From the moment the tourist enters the site, everyone has to be photographed in front of every feature of note… The photographic record of…

— Martin Parr

Why do photographers photograph? To make unreality visible.

— Bill Jay

There is a narrative behind every image. I often imagine being able to see the photographer standing behind the camera, or perhaps crouching or…

— James Welling

Photographs need to demand the viewer's attention, often implicitly, posing questions as to the nature of what is being depicted. Photographs are not there…

— Fred Ritchin

The destination of the photograph is to reveal what something or somebody looked like, under a particular set of conditions, at a particular moment…

— David Hurn

If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial…

— Paul Strand