Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. ~Ambrose Bierce

“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

"I’m not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I make it. If I had a chance, I’d be out shooting all the time. You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at you." - Lee Friedlander

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

“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”
Aaron Siskind

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. ~Robert Adams, Darkroom & Creative Camera Techniques, May 1995

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

“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

“Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.”
Edward Steichen

Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.
Berenice Abbott

Buying a Nikon doesn't make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon owner. ~Author Unknown

When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice." - Robert Frank

“ Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. – Ansel Adams

“ Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.
Imogen Cunningham

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. ~Ansel Adams

“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

“Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.”
Helmut Newton

“ You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
Ansel Adams

“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

“ Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. ~Ambrose Bierce

“ Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times…I just shoot at what interests me at that moment
Elliott Erwitt

“ I always thought good photos were like good jokes. If you have to explain it, it just isn’t that good. – Anonymous

"A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth." - Richard Avedon

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

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. ~Ansel Adams

“It can be a trap of the photographer to think that his or her best pictures were the ones that were hardest to get. – Timothy Allen – On editing photos

“ If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.
Garry Winogrand

“For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson