Attempting Quote by Wright Morris

I believe that photography can only reproduce the surface of things. The same applies to a portrait. I take photographs of people the same…

— Thomas Ruff

There is no one way of photographing anything. I don't believe there is even one best way of photographing any given subject.

— Michael Kenna

The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be…

— Edward Weston

I can photograph someone if I can touch them.

— Eugene Richards

Someone said to me, early on in film school if you can photograph the human face you can photograph anything, because that is the…

— Roger Deakins

Photography has always been capable of manipulation. Even more subtle and more invidious is the fact that any time you put a frame to…

— Joel Sternfeld

With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

I use the camera as a dumb copying device that only serves to document whatever phenomenon appears before it through the conditions set by…

— Douglas Huebler

My urge to photograph is activated by an almost biological instinct for preservation from disorder. The camera is a mechanical apparatus that extends my…

— Arthur Tress

Of course [photography] cannot create, nor express all we want to express. But it can be a witness of our passage on earth, like…

— Mario Giacomelli

All too frequently the amateur will purchase a fine modern camera and proceed to use it for making the most elementary simple snapshots. This…

— Sam Haskins

You should make photographs with your heart, mind, eye & soul. The capture device is simply there to allow you to transfer your vision…

— Bill Frakes