I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.

If your photos aren’t good enough, then you’re not close enough.”
— Robert Capa
“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
— Ansel Adams
“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”
— Alfred Stieglitz
“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.”
— Robert Frank
“Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.”
— Anonymous
“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”
— Aaron Siskind
“When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.”

We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.”
— Ralph Hattersley
“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.”
— Annie Leibovitz
“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
“You don’t take a photograph. You ask quietly to borrow it.”
— Unknown
“Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.”
— Don McCullin
“If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.”
— Ansel Adams
“A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.”
— Edward Steichen
“It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.”
— Paul Caponigro
“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”
— Andy Warhol
“Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.”
— Diane Arbus
“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are time and light.”
— John Berger