Embrace Quote by Torbjørn Rødland

The original meaning of the word tact referred to the sense of touch (as in 'tactile'), and came to mean skill in dealing with…

— J. Oswald Sanders

Photography is the easiest medium with which to be merely competent. Almost anybody can be competent. It's the hardest medium in which to have…

— Chuck Close

Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation

— Paul Strand

Photography has an amazing ability to capture the fine detail of surface textures. But far too often these intricate patterns are loved by the…

— Arthur Tress

Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately informative, and…

— John Szarkowski

Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.

— Paul Caponigro

Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And for me, I just have…

— John Sexton

In my years of photography I have learned that many things can be sensed, seen, shaped, or resolved in a realm of quiet, well…

— Paul Caponigro

Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

“To get from the tangible to the intangible (which mature artists in any medium claim as part of their task) a paradox of some…

— Minor White

The majority of photographers still seek artistic effects, imitating other mediums of graphic expression. The result is a hybrid product that does not succeed…

— Tina Modotti