Quotes on Art Photography

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.