As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks like to what w…

- Aaron Siskind

In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.

- Aaron Siskind

I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photo…

- Aaron Siskind

It is no longer a matter of expressing reality, but of expressing what one feels about reality.

- Aaron Siskind

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to …

- Aaron Siskind

When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of e…

- Aaron Siskind

The only other things I got from the abstract expressionists is the absolute belief that this canvas is the complete total area of struggle, this is …

- Aaron Siskind

To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is ver…

- Aaron Siskind

As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on the right. Watch them grow la…

- Aaron Siskind