Cameras Quote by Thomas Ruff

There's something essentially fictive about a photograph. That doesn't mean that if you understand that, and you understand how the world is transformed by…

— Stephen Shore

Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the…

— Daido Moriyama

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see…

— Ernst Haas

I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph.

— Stephen Shore

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

— Edward Steichen

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

Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that is direct…

— Ellsworth Kelly

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

“Photography is light-writing, the language of images. Less abstract than written or spoken language, it selects images from the existing world of appearances and…

— David Levi Strauss

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do…

— Elliott Erwitt

To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult…

— Ansel Adams