Choices Quote by Thomas Roma

A photographer who does not know how to translate his feelings and ideas into a graphically satisfactory form is bound to produce ineffective photographs,…

— Andreas Feininger

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

The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.

— Allan Sekula

The process must be concealed from - non-existent for - the photographer, who by definition need think of the art in the taking and…

— Edwin Land

To know whether photography is or is not an art matters little. What is important is to distinguish between good and bad photography. By…

— Tina Modotti

What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently than I do. A good picture must be a completely individual…

— Alexey Brodovitch

The definition of a great picture is one that stays with you, one that you can't forget. It doesn't have to be technically good…

— Steve McCurry

My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.

— Bill Jay

In fact, the new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography's status as an inherently truthful pictorial form...…

— Fred Ritchin

A photograph records both the thing in front of the camera and the conditions of its making... A photograph is also a document of…

— James Welling

Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just…

— Berenice Abbott

A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change.

— Pablo Picasso