No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.
Robert Adams
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do – that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.
Diane Arbus
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
Ansel Adams
If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.
Robert Capa
It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
Dorothea Lange
Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.
Robert Mapplethorpe
To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
Elliott Erwitt
I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I’m photographing.
James Nachtwey
I’m not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.
Sebastiao Salgado
Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.
Paul Strand
I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job.
Don McCullin
Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it’s just about impossible to follow up with words. They don’t have anything to do with each other.
William Eggleston
It should be the aim of every photographer to make a single exposure that shows everything about the subject.
Yousuf Karsh
Am I looking at a mask or am I the mask being looked at?
Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Everybody has a life. Everybody has a sensibility. Everybody has yearnings. Everybody has a cause to plead. And everybody has a camera.
Richard Avedon
A photograph is to a painting what an automobile is to a horse. A rider on his horse is a beautiful thing, but I prefer a man in an airplane.
Man Ray
At the end of the day, it’s only a photograph and if someone is going to get really upset about a photograph, then they have a lot of issues.
Rankin
If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug a camera.
Lewis Hine
Millions of unnecessary photos are taken every day. People stand before the Pyramids and photograph them, when for three cents they could buy postcards which show them much better.
Edouard Boubat
Photography doesn’t just give you the tree, it gives you every leaf on the tree.
Lee Friedlander
You make great images with your head and your heart not with the latest hyped megapixel piece of overpriced kit.
Tom Stoddart
At the end of the day, what I show is real life. I tell the truth. And the truth can be shocking.
Larry Clark
I have no inhibitions, and neither has my camera.
Weegee
For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it’s a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money.
Martin Parr
Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term “photography” has become impossible.
Andreas Gursky
