Photography
\Pho*tog"ra*phy\, n. [Photo- + -graphy: cf. F. photographie.]
1. The science which relates to the action of light on sensitive bodies in the production of pictures, the fixation of images, and the like.
2. The art or process of producing pictures by this action of light.
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"All the technical ability in the world will not compensate for the lack of ability to notice." -- Elliot Erwitt
"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
"Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors." -- W. Eugene Smith
"Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution." -- Ansel Adams
"At forty-two I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn’t rationalize this, I just felt it intuitively and followed my intuition, which I have never regretted." -- Wynn Bullock
"I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting." -- Harry Callahan
"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
"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." -- Man Ray
"My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been." -- Diane Arbus
"I believe that photography loves banal objects. I am sure you know the fairy tales of Anderson: when the children go to bed the objects come to life, toys for example. I like to tell stories about inanimate objects, to relate something mysterious: the seventh side of the dice." -- Josef Sudek
"Prowling the streets all day, feeling very strung-up and ready to pounce, determined to ‘trap’ life, to preserve life in the act of living ... the decisive moment ... the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression." -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
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