Accepting Quote by Wynn Bullock

As a rule I do not like to explain my photographs, I want my pictures to be read and explored. I believe a good…

— John Gutmann

Working with existing pictures, like I do, you constantly think about the flood of images we are subjected to and you want to figure…

— Thomas Demand

I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen…

— Edward Weston

It is much to my advantage that several of my pictures should be seen together, as it displays to advantage their varieties of conception…

— John Constable

Being an artist, I had an artist's instincts.You can see the picture before it's taken; then it's up to you to get the camera…

— James Van Der Zee

My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel…

— Robert Frank

The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a sensible man…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Most photographs take their cues from advertising, where the priority is high image content for an easy Gestalt reading.

— Richard Serra

All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is…

— Geoffrey Batchen

The first merit of pictures is the effect they produce on the mind; and the first step of a sensible man should be to…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The work is primarily subject-driven. All decisions flow from there. The photographs are all made in response to a unique subject, in particular context,…

— Gregory Heisler

Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in the most…

— Howard S. Becker