Confusion Quote by Saul Leiter

I look at a photograph. What's going on? What's happening, photographically? If it's interesting, I try to understand why.

— Garry Winogrand

All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is…

— Geoffrey Batchen

I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.

— Bill Eppridge

The feeling we experience while we look at a picture is not to be distinguished from the picture or from ourselves. the feeling, picture,…

— Rene Magritte

Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. There’s no sense of the whole.…

— Susan Meiselas

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

It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and all of…

— Chuck Close

I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff,…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

When I photograph, I try to use my instincts as much as possible. It is when pictures are unconsidered and irrational that they come…

— Jacob Aue Sobol

There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know.

— Lisette Model

What a photograph shows us is how a particular thing could be seen, or could be made to look - at a specific moment,…

— A. D. Coleman