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Photography is my passion.

Alfred Stieglitz

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.

Henri Cartier Bresson

Light glorifies everything. It transforms and ennobles the most commonplace and ordinary subjects. The object is nothing; light is everything.

Leonard Misonne

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technicque, who ask "how," while others of a more curious nature will ask "why." Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

Man ray

No matter how slow the film, spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.

Minor White

Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

Robert Heinecken

If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.

Ruth Bernhard

There is no art which affords less opportunity to execute expression than photography. Everything is concentrated in a few seconds, when after perhaps an hours seeking, waiting, and hesitation, the photographer sees the realization of his inward vision, and in that moment he has one advantage over most arts - his medium is swift enough to record his momentary inspiration

Sadakichi Hartmann

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.

Susan Sontag

The two most engaging powers of a photographer are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.

W. Thackeray

The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.

Walker Evans

When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision.

Edward Weston

Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.

Berenice Abbott

The world is going to pieces and people like Adams and Weston are photographing rocks!

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it may be.

Edward Weston

To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, 'There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.

Ansel Adams

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

Diane Arbus

The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE.

Ernst Haas

We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were. We don't know these lost people but if you look around, you'll find someone just like them.

Gene McSweeney

Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.

Ken Rockwell

The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs.

Ken Rockwel

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Oscar Wilde

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

Tallulah Bankhead

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