Being Quote by Teju Cole

I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.

— Alvin Langdon Coburn

I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose.…

— Walker Evans

For me, photography is as much about the way I respond to the subject as it is about the subject itself.

— Alec Soth

Photography is not difficult - as long as you have something to say.

— Mario Giacomelli

To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.

— Brassai

Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.

— Roland Barthes

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing…

— Martin Parr

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

You have to focus on what you are doing, not just as a photographer, but as a human being.

— Anders Petersen

I've always believed a great photographer should concentrate more on depth of feeling and less on depth of field.

— Max Dupain

Being a photographer is making people look at what I want them to look at.

— Ruth Orkin

Isn't it amazing how photography has advanced without improving.

— Charles Sheeler