Important Quote by William Albert Allard

The simplicity of photography lies in the fact that it is very easy to make a picture. The staggering complexity of it lies in…

— John Szarkowski

Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that…

— Frank Gohlke

Why do photographers photograph? To make unreality visible.

— Bill Jay

For me what photographers say about their photos doesn’t have any importance. For me it is just enough to look at the pictures. Many…

— Josef Koudelka

For me, the importance of photography is that you can point to something, that you can let other people see things. Ultimately, it is…

— Rineke Dijkstra

Those who want to be serious photographers, you're really going to have to edit your work. You're going to have to understand what you're…

— Annie Leibovitz

As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.

— Rineke Dijkstra

Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must…

— Henri Matisse

Ambiguity is really important to me. Part of the difficulty facing photographers is that almost any subject matter has accumulated a representational history, so…

— Larry Sultan

Being a photographer is making people look at what I want them to look at.

— Ruth Orkin

As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers.

— Andreas Feininger

No photographer should be blamed when, instead of capturing reality, he tries to show things he has seen only in his imagination. Photography is…

— Philippe Halsman