Consciousness Quote by Torbjørn Rødland

What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.

— William Klein

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are…

— Susan Sontag

My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel…

— Robert Frank

Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.

— Minor White

There are two kinds of photographs: mine and other people's. I never think of what I might do myself when I look at someone…

— John Loengard

I realized eventually that if I was really on top of what I was doing, I should be able to make photographs out of…

— Grant Mudford

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

— W. Eugene Smith

I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.

— David Bailey

Some people can sit and enjoy the view... some people like to take photos to feel complete. I need to somehow possess it in…

— Graeme Base

My photography comes from absolute matter-of-fact situations but also from a deep curiosity that I possess for people, for what they do and how…

— Massimo Vitali

While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity. I seek…

— Dawoud Bey

Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t…

— Emmet Gowin