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
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, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
Ansel Adams
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
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
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
Berenice Abbott
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
Sam Abell
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind
Dorothea Lange
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
Ansel Adams
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
Ansel Adams
You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.
William Albert Allard
A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?
Ernst Haas
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
Gary Winogrand