If you wait, people will forget your camera and the soul will drift up into view
— Steve McCurry
If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.— Robert Capa
Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls. In fact Jesus was constantly making pictures of God in people’s life by looking at their souls and exposing them to his light.— Francis Bacon
Know your camera as well as you know yourself and you know the outcome of every picture— Vincent Versace, pictureline Digifest 2009
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
Stop taking pictures, be taken by them.— Vincent Versace, pictureline Digifest 2009
The camera looks both ways.— Rick Sammon
The camera sees more than the eye.— Edward Weston
The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.— Edward Weston
The name of the game is to fill the frame.— Rick Sammon
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.— Ansel Adams
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.— Susan Sontag
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.— Ansel Adams
We make pictures. At the end of the day, we create something potentially significant that did not exist at the beginning of the day. We go forward, despite the uncertainty. Because this is an act of love and passion, which defies reason and prudence.— Joe McNally, “As Good As It Gets”, September 23, 2008
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.— Ansel Adams