Bigs Quote by Stephen Shore

Everything has the potential to be extraordinary, whether an old photograph, a book or a life. If you find it ordinary, you simply need…

— Claire Cameron

A photographer who wants to see....must recognize the value of the familiar. Your ability to see is not increased by the distance you put…

— Freeman Patterson

"You know you are seeing such a photograph if you say to yourself, "I could have taken that picture. I've seen such a scene…

— Sam Abell

Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The…

— Susan Sontag

We used the camera only as a means of expression and as a visual medium that offers possibilities found in no other artistic technique,…

— Piet Zwart

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

I find it strangely beautiful that the camera with its inherent clarity of object and detail can produce images that in spite of themselves…

— Joel Meyerowitz

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

In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but also a…

— Wynn Bullock

In the absence of a subject with which you are passionately involved, and without the excitement that drives you to grasp it and exhaust…

— Brassai

Now when I see something beautiful or funny or sweet, sometimes I reach for my camera, but other times I think, 'I need to…

— Leelee Sobieski

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