” My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been. ”
Diane Arbus
“ Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. ”
Henri Cartier-Bresson
“ Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph. ”
Matt Hardy
“ Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times…I just shoot at what interests me at that moment. ”
Elliott Erwitt
“ Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow. ”
Imogen Cunningham
“ You’ve got to push yourself harder. You’ve got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You’ve got to take the tools you have and probe deeper. ”
William Albert Allard
” We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. ”
Anaïs Nin
” We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect…. but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. ”
Aaron Siskind
” You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn’t waste either. ”
Galen Rowell
” The photographer should suffer, not the audience. ”
Daniel Rubinstein
” No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. ”
Robert Adams
” When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls! ”
Ted Grant
” There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. ”
Ansel Adams
” Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. ”
Ansel Adams
” I think a photography class should be a requirement in all educational programs because it makes you see the world rather than just look at it. ”
” The camera can photograph thought. ”
Dirk Bogarde
” Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn’t a very interesting photograph. If it were, they would have more to say. ”
” Actually, I’m not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I’m not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren’t cooks. ”
Henri Cartier-Bresson
” There will be times when you will be in the field without a camera. And, you will see the most glorious sunset or the most beautiful scene that you have ever witnessed. Don’t be bitter because you can’t record it. Sit down, drink it in, and enjoy it for what it is! ”
DeGriff
” You don’t take a photograph, you make it. ”
Ansel Adams