“A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.”
– Ansel Adams

“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.”
– Ansel Adams

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”
– Ansel Adams

“Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.”
– Ansel Adams

“Sometimes I arrive just when God’s ready to have someone click the shutter.”
– Ansel Adams

“For me, the camera is a sketchbook, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson

“We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.”
– Ralph Hattersley

-“That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject; you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.”
– Dorothea Lange

-“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.”
— Diane Arbus

-“The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.”
– Stephen Shore

-“Black and white are the colors of photography. To me, they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.”
– Robert Frank

“I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.”
— Ellen von Unwerth

-“A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.”
– Dorothea Lange

“Only photograph what you love.”– Tim Walker

-“When I take a black-and-white portrait, it’s not particularly meant to please you. It’s meant to talk to you; it’s meant to shame you. It’s meant to scream out at you, and it has a message.”— Don McCullin

-The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.”– Ernst Hass

-“When I photograph, what I’m really doing is seeking answers to things.”– Wynn Bullock

-“Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.”— Duane Michals

-“I’m very particular who I work with. I’m not interested in portraying women with a cliched, generic look. I’m interested in a model who I can take a portrait of.”— Tim Walker

-“Once photography enters your bloodstream, it is like a disease.”– Anon

-“Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future.”— Sally Mann

-“Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren’t fantasies; they need to tell a truth.”— Tim Walker

-“A woman said to me when she first sat down, You’re photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?”— Imogen Cunningham

-“Photographs are just light and time.”- Aza Holmes

-“Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.”– Sebastian Smee

-“The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share.”- Rashid Johnson

-“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”– Dorothea Lange

-“To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia.” – René Burri

-“Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.”- Eadweard Muybridge

-“What do we feel when we look at a good photograph? We just want to be there, right at the exact moment that photo taken!”- Mehmet Murat Ildan

-“It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.”- Alfred Eisenstaedt