Hardest thing Quote by Steinbeck

Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately informative, and…

— John Szarkowski

The hardest thing in photography is to create a simple image.

— Anne Geddes

Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem of how…

— Ernst Haas

Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can…

— Edward Steichen

It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and…

— Roger Ballen

Yet it seems so easy to take a photograph! One forgets that, apart from the technical aspects, photography can be a mental creation and…

— Gisele Freund

The simplicity of photography lies in the fact that it is very easy to make a picture. The staggering complexity of it lies in…

— John Szarkowski

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are…

— Susan Sontag

Once a photographer is convinced that the camera can lie and that, strictly speaking, the vast majority of photographs are camera lies, inasmuch as…

— Andreas Feininger

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

— Edward Steichen

While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.

— Chuck Close

Good photographs aren't just complex. They are enigmatic. Images are beguiling. And the way they play into our psychology, into our visual cortex, is…

— Stuart Franklin