- Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees. ~ Paul Strand
- You don’t take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it. ~Author Unknown
- While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. ~Dorothea Lange
- Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts. ~ Walker Evans
- Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.~ Dorthea Lange
- When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls! ~Ted Grant
- When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track.~ Arthur Fellig
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. ~Ansel Adams
- When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I’d like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph. ~ Annie Leibovitz
- To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. ~ Elliott Erwitt
- Think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways. ~ Duane Michals
- There will be times when you will be in the field without a camera. And, you will see the most glorious sunset or the most beautiful scene that you have ever witnessed. Don’t be bitter because you can’t record it. Sit down, drink it in, and enjoy it for what it is! ~DeGriff
- There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are. ~ Ernst Haas
- There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. ~Ansel Adams
- There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. ~Ansel Adams
- The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera. ~W. Eugene Smith
- The photograph itself doesn’t interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality. ~Henri Cartier Bresson
- The negative is the equivalent of the composer’s score, and the print the performance. ~Ansel Adams
- The goal is not to change your subjects, but for the subject to change the photographer. ~Author Unknown
- The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country’s uniform was the one never-failing consolation. ~Louis Fabian Bachrach
- The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. ~Henri Cartier Bresson
- The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth. ~Harold Evans
- The camera can photograph thought. It’s better than a paragraph of sweet polemic. ~ Dirk Bogarde
- Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter. ~Ansel Adams
- Some photographers take reality…and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation. ~ Ansel Adams
- She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes. ~ Frank Deford
- Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, “Gee, I’m glad I have that moment.” ~ John Loengard
- One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind. ~ Dorothea Lange
- Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts. ~Minor White
- No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. ~Robert Adams
- No photographer is as good as the simplest camera. ~Edward Steichen
- My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. ~Richard Avedon
- Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. ~Tony Benn
- Look, I’m not an intellectual – I just take pictures. ~ Helmut Newton
- Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment. ~ Ansel Adams
- It’s weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don’t even amount to a couple of hours. ~James Lalropui Keivom
- It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness. ~ Paul Strand
- I’m always mentally photographing everything as practice. ~ Minor White
- If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera. ~Lewis Hine
- 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
- I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don’t find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges. ~ William Albert Allard
- I think a photography class should be a requirement in all educational programs because it makes you see the world rather than just look at it. ~ Author Unknown
- I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost – that is important. ~ Jacques-Henri Lartigue
- I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help. ~Ruth Bernhard
- I just think it’s important to be direct and honest with people about why you’re photographing them and what you’re doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul. ~Mary Ellen Mark
- I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. ~John Steinbeck
- Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film. ~ Author Unknown
- Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn’t a very interesting photograph. If it were, they would have more to say. ~Author Unknown
- Buying a Nikon doesn’t make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon owner. ~ Author Unknown
- As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs. ~ Sam Abell
- All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth. ~Richard Avedon
- All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. ~ John Berger
- Actually, I’m not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I’m not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren’t cooks. ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
- A picture is worth ten thousand words. ~ Chinese Proverb
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
