Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
Edward Steichen

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.
Nigel Dennis

Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.
Edward Weston

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Dorothea Lange

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.
Jacques-Henri Lartigue

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, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
Sam Abell

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

So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera.
John Sexton

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.
Alfred Stieglitz

The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.
Alberto Korda

The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
Antonia Fraser

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
Edward Steichen

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.
Sol LeWitt

The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography, so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for you automatically but I still think there's a point where you should actually know the technical side.
Graeme Le Saux

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
Gabriel Lippmann

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.
Edward Steichen

Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography.
Stephen Sprouse

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
Galen Rowell