Lee Friedlander
[Photographer, b. 1934, Aberdeen, Washington, lives in New York.]
The world makes up my pictures, not me.
Luigi Ghirri
[Photographer, b. 1943, Scandiano, Italy, d. 1992, Reggio Emilia, Italy.]
Paradoxically perhaps… the moment a photographer thinks he is showing us reality is the moment when it is most distant.
André Kertész
[Photographer, b. 1894, Budapest, Hungary, d. 1985, New York.]
You do not have to imagine things; reality gives you all you need.
Thomas Ruff
[Photographer, b. 1958, Zell, Germany, lives in Dusseldorf, Germany.]
If things are the way they are, why should I try to make them look different?
Susan Sontag
[Writer, theorist, and critic, b. 1933, New York, d. 2004, New York.]
The vast maw of modernity has chewed up reality and spat the whole mess out as images.
Frederick Sommer
[Photographer, b. 1905, Angri, Italy, d. 1999, Prescott, Arizona.]
Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.
Bertolt Brecht
[Dramatist, director and poet, b. 1898, Augsburg, Germany, d. 1956, East Berlin.]
Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
[Photographer and painter, b. 1908, Chanteloup, France, d. 2004, Paris.]
The photograph itself doesn’t interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
