When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself
Susan Sontag
On Photography "Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption
Susan Sontag
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
Ansel Adams
The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.
Walker Evans
Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.
Don McCullin
Once photography enters your bloodstream, it's like a disease.
Anon
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
Gary Winogrand
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
Ansel Adams
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
Sam Abell
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
Berenice Abbott
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be
Edward Weston
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
Ansel Adams
Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
Arnold Newman
As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
Sam Abell