David Hockney
[Artist, b. 1937, Bradford, England, lives in Bridlington, Yorkshire; London; and Los Angeles.]

 I’ve always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface. 

George Davison
[Photographer, b. 1854, Lowestoft, England, d. 1930, Antibes, France.]

 ...given a subject with really strong poetic possibilities in it, sharpness and detail will go a long way to render it commonplace. (1889) 

Ernst Haas
[Photographer, b. 1921, Vienna, Austria, d. 1986, New York City.]

 The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances... a tiny relationship—either a harmony or a disharmony—that creates a picture. 

Wim Wenders
[Artist and filmmaker, b. 1945, Düsseldorf, lives in Berlin.]

 An image that is unseen can’t sell anything. It is pure, therefore true, beautiful, in one word: innocent. As long as no eye contaminates it, it is in perfect unison with the world. If it is not seen, the image and the object it represents belong together. 

Phil Stern
[Photographer, b. 1919, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, d. 2014, Los Angeles.]

 I’m always looking for perfection. Every photographer, in one way or another, if he’s serious, is. He ain’t ever going to get it. But hope springs eternal. 
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