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No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film

Robert Adams

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

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

Eudora Welty

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

John Steinbeck

All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Richard Avedon

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

Lewis Hine

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

Henri Cartier Bresson

One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style.

Unknown

All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.

John Berger

I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.

Wynn Bullock

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be

Duane Michals

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Dorothea Lange

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

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

Ansel Adams

score, and the print the performance

Ansel Adams

Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures

Helmut Newton

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

W. Eugene Smith

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

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

Think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways

Duane Michals

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

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