Ralph Steiner
[Photographer, b. 1899, Cleveland, Ohio, d. 1986, Hanover, New Hampshire.]
By showing a picture, you’re showing an x-ray of your heart.
Jeanloup Sieff
[Photographer, b. 1930, Paris, d. 2001, Paris.]
I am totally superficial, I know. But I believe superficiality can be very serious, a defense against the gravity of things, a manner of discretion.
Luigi Ghirri
[Photographer, b. 1943, Scandiano, Italy, d. 1992, Reggio Emilia, Italy.]
The most important lesson I received from Conceptual art consisted in the recording of simple and obvious things, and viewing them under a whole new light.
Jack Welpott
[Photographer, b. 1923, Kansas City, Missouri, d. 2007, Greenbrae, California.]
I am still struck by the power of photography to strip away the bark of the mind and reveal the visceral workings underneath.
Beaumont Newhall
[Photographer, writer, and historian, b. 1908, Lynn, Massachusetts, d. 1993, Santa Fe, New Mexico.]
The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form.
Brassaï (Gyula Halász)
[Photographer, b. 1889, Brassó, Transylvania, Hungary (now Romania), d. 1984, Eze, Alpes-Maritimes, France.]
Surreality lies within ourselves, in objects that have become banal because we no longer see them, in the
normality of the normal.
Jan Saudek
[Photographer, b. 1935, Prague, Czechoslovakia, lives in Prague.]
What I really do is make portraits of the soul.
Minor White
[Photographer, writer, and theorist, b. 1908, Minneapolis, Minnesota, d. 1976, Cambridge, Massachusetts.]
One should photograph objects, not only for what they are but for what else they are.
