Quotes by
Roman Vishniac

The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental process that starts with the photographer's thinking about the subject he photographs and is continued in the mind of the spectator.

If you think we see with our eyes, you are wrong. It is with our brain; and we believe in God not with our soul, but also our brain.

For me, photographic vision and interpretation mean much more than what the camera is doing. It is not important to ask ‘Is it done by the camera ?’ It is both wrong and weak to analyze photography, and all art for that matter, from the point of view of technique. Instead, we must start from the point of thinking.

Everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnification —crude, rough, and unsymmetrical. But in nature every bit of life is lovely. The more magnification that we can use, the more details are brought out. perfectly formed.