Creativity Quote by Vilem Flusser

We [photographers] have the tools and the power to create images - we should try to make them as truthful as possible.

— Petra Collins

I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.

— John Sexton

We do not make photographs with our cameras. We make them with our minds, with our hearts, with our ideas.

— Arnold Newman

A photographer doesn't just copy reality, but communicates to others what he or she experiences.

— Walter Rosenblum

“Photographers don't take pictures. They create images.”

— Mark Denman

Photographers aren't artists, for goodness sake.

— Diana Vreeland

The problem is almost everybody is just recording the world with home photographic toys, not doing metaphor or ideas. We have a photographic culture…

— James Balog

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

Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.

— Nikki Giovanni

Traditionally, images have functioned as representations of something in the world, but we are quickly approaching the point where vast majority of images are…

— Trevor Paglen

Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.

— Arnold Newman

There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the…

— Ernst Haas