“We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone.”
Katie Thurmes
“The camera always points both ways. In expressing your subject you also express yourself”
Freeman Patterson
”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
“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
Ansel Adams
“Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.”
Anon
“The best camera is the one you have with you”
Anonymous
“Photography can light up darkness and expose ignorance”
Lewis Hine
“A good photographer is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it”
Irving Penn
“Photos are our autobiography a way of telling who we are”
Jan Phillips
“If you take photographs, don’t speak, don’t write, don’t analyze yourself, and don’t answer any questions”
Robert Doisneau
“Photography is the story I fail to put into words.”
Destin Sparks
“All the technique in the world doesn’t compensate for the inability to notice.”
Elliott Erwitt
“The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.”
Anne Geddes
“We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us”
Ralph Hattersley
When you trust your point of view, that’s when you start taking pictures.”
Annie Leibovitz
“You must let the person looking at the photograph go some of the way to finishing it. You should offer them a seed that will grow and open up their minds.”
Robert Doisneau
“Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field”
Peter Adams
“If you don’t have anything to say, your photographs are not going to say much.”
Gordon Parks
“When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.”
Alfred Eisenstaedt
“The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.”
Susan Meiselas
“They don’t understand that it’s not about a style or a look or a setup. It’s about emotional obsession and empathy.”
Nan Goldin
“If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that’s a good picture.”
Eddie Adams
“Photography makes me more aware of what is around me, appreciating more the infinite shades of humankind.”
Emanuel Caristi
“For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson
“I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in”
Steve McCurry
