To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things
Ansel Adams
There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.
Ansel Adams
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer
Ansel Adams
A good photograph is knowing where to stand
Ansel Adams
Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty
Ansel Adams
The crude creations of mortal thought must finally give place to the glorious forms which we sometimes behold in the camera of divine Mind, where the mental picture is spiritual and eternal.
Robert Capa
You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it
Unknown
Gives us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah! I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph So momma, don't take my Kodachrome away..
Paul Simon
Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures
Paul Simon
When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself
Susan Sontag
As I progressed further with my project, it became obvious that it was really unimportant where I chose to photograph. The particular place simply provided an excuse to produce work... you can only see what you are ready to see - what mirrors your mind at that particular time
Henry David Thoureau
Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery!
Mark Twain
At forty-two I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didnÃt rationalize this, I just felt it intuitively and followed my intuition, which I have never regretted.
Wynn Bullock
I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
Harry Callahan
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.
Edward Steichen