A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
~ Diane Arbus
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.
~ James Mcneill Whistler
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the ‘ah-ha’.
~ Ernst Haas
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
No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want.
~ Ken Rockwell
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
~ Tony Benn
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.
~ Brooks Anderson
A photograph is neither taken nor seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
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