Dreams Quote by Sid Grossman

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

A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking.

— John Paul Caponigro

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

— Minor White

A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see. Most people, really, don’t see-see only what they…

— Leon Levinstein

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

photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar…

— Susan Sontag

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It…

— Irving Penn

“Photography is light-writing, the language of images. Less abstract than written or spoken language, it selects images from the existing world of appearances and…

— David Levi Strauss

One day the photograph is going to become even more important than it is now.... But I am not particularly an advocate of the…

— Robert Smithson

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates,…

— Berenice Abbott

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