Ideas Quote by Susan Sontag

Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.

— Heinrich Heine

Photography is inextricably linked with life; the photographer is not invisibly behind the camera but projecting a life-attitude through the lens to create an…

— Bill Jay

“One who argues that photography is not art, only looks at the photograph, they do not look into its meaning”

— Katie Goodnough

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.

— Ernst Haas

It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject.

— Mario Testino

Photography is a holding together of opposites: Light and dark, beautiful and ugly, sublime and banal, concious and unconcious. I am still struck by…

— Jack Welpott

At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights, and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and images form…

— Nancy Newhall

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

— Ansel Adams

Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can…

— Michael Langford

“But the very question of whether photography is or is not an art is essentially a misleading one. Although photography generates works that can…

— Susan Sontag

Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation

— Paul Strand

Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.

— Aaron Huey