1,962 Quotes About Photography

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

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

A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.

I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera