Conscious Quote by Thomas Struth

Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

— Robert Heinecken

I always say I make pictures rather than take pictures.

— Terry Richardson

Sometimes we work so fast that we don't really understand what's going on in front of the camera. We just kind of sense that,…

— Minor White

When you work fast, what you put in your pictures is what your brought with yoiu - your own ideas and concepts. When you…

— Sebastiao Salgado

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

It is hard to avoid the aspect of time when producing what ones sees as a photograph.... my images [are] something that is not…

— Idris Khan

[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs…

— Susan Sontag

I have to say, taking photographs is such an instantaneous act. The recognition and the acting on the recognition, depending on your equipment, is…

— Joel Meyerowitz

There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite naturally and…

— Sebastiao Salgado

“To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson