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

Ambrose Bierce

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

Ansel Adams

When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls!

Ted Grant

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into

Ansel Adams

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer

Ansel Adams

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.

Unknown

The camera can photograph thought.

Dirk Bogarde

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs

Ansel Adams

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

Edward Steichen

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.

Unknown

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

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

Ansel Adams

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

Richard Avedon

A photograph is memory in the raw

Carrie Latet

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

You don't take a photograph, you make it

Ansel Adams

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

Ruth Bernhard

A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty. We won't take an interest in it.

John Loengard

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

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

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

Henri Cartier Bresson

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

A photograph is like the recipe - a memory the finished dish.

Carrie Latet

Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film.

Unknown

Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.

Sam Abbel

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