12. To photograph is to appropriate the thing being photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation with the world that feels like knowledge - and, therefore, like power. Susan Sontag
13. Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera. Minor White
15. A photograph and its "referent" have so many affinities that we are unable to separate them from each other, but also enough differences to keep us from conflating them. Kaja Silverman
16. Photography concentrates one’s eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can’t catch that even with the sharpest lens. One has to grope for it by feeling. Franz Kafka
17. A photograph isn't a representation or even an index. It is, rather, a special kind of analogy - the kind that our culture most needs. Kaja Silverman
18. The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed. Garry Winogrand
19. A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see. Roland Barthes
20. I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can't go any further. Harry Callahan
26. When I use the camera, I often feel like I know part of the people or places I come in contact with. Christophe Agou
27. Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today. Anonymous
28. I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so. Jacques-Henri Lartigue
29. A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera "saw" a piece of time and space. Garry Winogrand
30. In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it. Emile Zola
31. Writing is not about words. Painting is not about pigment. Music is not about tones. As long as photographers insist that photography is about photographs, the art is limited and self-containing! Brooks Jensen
32. The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child Henri Matisse
33. Having a camera makes you no more a photographer than having a hammer and some nails makes you a carpenter. Claude Adams
34. The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt. Henri Cartier-Bressson
35. What uses having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling? W. Eugene Smith
36. A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety Ansel Adams
37. If you can see, you can also take pictures. But learning to see may take a long time. Anonymous
38. Let's have variety. Photographers can't, don't and shouldn't all see and work alike, and that is good. David Vestal
39. 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
40. Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow. Imogen Cunningham
41. I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Garry Winogrand
42. I always thought good photos were like good jokes. If you have to explain it, it just isn't that good. Anonymous
43. 36 satisfactory exposures on a roll means a photographer is not trying anything new. Freeman Patterson
44. The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera. Henri Cartier-Bresson
45. A photo no longer tells the truth. It suggests just one possibility. Anonymous