Art Quote by Walker Evans

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him…

— Brooks Atkinson

It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of…

— Bill Brandt

The decision as to when to photograph, the actual click of the shutter, is partly controlled from the outside, by the flow of life,…

— Paul Strand

What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms... He pursues them into their last refuges and surprises…

— Brassai

I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so disciplined. The…

— Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Photography is inextricably linked with life; the photographer is not invisibly behind the camera but projecting a life-attitude through the lens to create an…

— Bill Jay

A photographer looks at everything, which is why he must look from beginning to end. Face the subject head-on, stay fixed, turn the entire…

— Shomei Tomatsu

There is no art which affords less opportunity to execute expression than photography. Everything is concentrated in a few seconds, when after perhaps an…

— Sadakichi Hartmann

The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and space, pattern…

— Andreas Feininger

So the problem for the poetic artist or the photographer is the common problem of continuous attentiveness, continuous attempts to notice what he is…

— Allen Ginsberg

I think that the photographer must completely control his picture and bring to it all his personality, and in this area most photographs never…

— Duane Michals

Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material.

— William Mortensen