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

“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”
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

“Photography is truth.”
Jean-Luc Godard

“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 never give quotations about photography...”
Angelo Valentino

“Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.”
Edward Weston

“Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.”
W. Eugene

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.”
Lewis Carroll

“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

“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

“Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.”
Duane Michals

“Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.”
Cornell Capa

“Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.”
Arnold Newman

“A photograph is a portrait painted by the sun”
Anon Umus

“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

“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.”
Ansel Adams

“Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.”
Paul Strand

“The camera can photograph thought”
Dirk Bogarde

“Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.”
Sam Abell

“I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.”
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Minor White

"The photographic image ... is a message without a code."
Roland Barthes

"The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided by the adaptability of the eye and by the borrowed light from the intense projector bulb, he can achieve those relationships in brightness that will make us dutifully admire the wonderful autumn tints he photographed on his latest trip. As soon as we look at a print of these photographs by day, the light seems to go out of them. It is one of the miracles of art that the same does not happen there. The paintings in our galleries are seen one day in bright sunshine and another day in the dim light of a rainy afternoon, yet they remain the same paintings, ever faithful, ever convincing. To a marvelous extent they carry their own light within. For their truth is not that of a perfect replica, it is the truth of art."
- E.H. Gombrich,