1. My interest in photography is not to capture an image I see or even have in my mind, but to explore the potential of moments I can only begin to imagine.

- Lois Greenfield

2. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

- Dorothea Lange

3. There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

- Ernst Haas

4. Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

- Paul Strand

5. There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.

- Abraham Lincoln

6. When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

- Ansel Adams

7. In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

- Alfred Stieglitz

8. A good snapshot keeps a moment that s gone from running away.

- Eudora Welty

9. Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

- Martin Parr

10. One advantage of photography is that it’s visual and can transcend language.

- Lisa Kristine

11. A photograph shouldn’t be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.

- Amit Kalantri

12. The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.

- Orson Welles

13. It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart, and head.

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

14. Photography is the art of making memories tangible.

- Destin Sparks

15. We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.

- Ralph Hattersley

16. It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after.

- Kate Morton

17. The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

- Edward Weston

18. 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

19. Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

- Steven Pinker

20. Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

- Ambrose Bierce

21. Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph.

- Andre Kertesz

22. It’s not enough to just own a camera. Everyone owns a camera. To be a photographer, you must understand, appreciate, and harness the power you hold!

- Mark Denman

23. My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

- Steve McCurry

24. Photography is not about cameras, gadgets and gizmos. Photography is about photographers. A camera didn’t make a great picture any more than a typewriter wrote a great novel.

- Peter Adams

25. Photography is an itch that won’t go away. No matter how much you scratch it.

- Dara McGrath

26. Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

- Marc Riboud

27. The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.

- Robert Mapplethorpe

28. Photography is my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.

- Alfred Stieglitz

29. Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.

- Imogen Cunningham

30. The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

- Susan Sontag

31. I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.

- Diane Arbus

32. I think good dreaming is what leads to good photographs.

- Wayne Miller

33. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

- Robert Heinecken

34. Twelve significant photographs in one year is a good crop.

- Ansel Adams

35. Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.

- Matt Hardy

36. A good photographer records; a great photographer reveals.

- David Glen Larson

37. Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

- Sam Abell

38. A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.

- Man Ray

39. Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

- Garry Winogrand

40. You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.

- Joan Miro

41. There’s something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.

- Stefan Kanfer

42. Photography is the story I fail to put into words.

- Destin Sparks

43. The earth is art, the photographer is only a witness.

- Yann Arthus-Bertrand

44. There is one thing the photo must contain – the humanity of the moment.

- Robert Frank

45. What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

- John Berger

46. The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

- Andy Warhol

47. To me, photography must suggest, not insist or explain.

- Brassai

48. Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

- Robert Frank

49. You don’t take a photograph, you make it.

- Ansel Adams

50. You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

- Ansel Adams

51. Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.

- Ansel Adams

52. A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

- Ansel Adams

53. The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.

- Steven Pinker

54. It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

- Alfred Eisenstaedt

55. Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it.

- Morley Baer

56. There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.

- Robert Frank

57. We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.

- Ralph Hattersley

58. When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls!

- Ted Grant

59. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down.

- Kate Morton

60. There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

- Ansel Adams

61. The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.

- Scott Lorenzo

62. A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.

- Diane Arbus

63. The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.

- Susan Meiselas

64. If you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of more interesting stuff.

- Jim Richardson

65. Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.

- Martin Parr

66. Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

- George Eastman

67. Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

- Yousuf Karsh

68. What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

- Karl Lagerfeld

69. 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

70. The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.

- Imogen Cunningham

71. A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

- Irving Penn

72. Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

- Duane Michals

73. A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they’ll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won’t do a thing for you if you don’t have anything in your head or in your heart.

- Arnold Newman

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

- Diane Arbus

75. Photography is truth.

- Jean-Luc Godard

76. With photography, a new language has been created. Now, for the first time, it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.

- Ernst Haas

77. Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.

- Sebastian Smee

78. 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

79. 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

80. Kodak sells film, but they don’t advertise film; they advertise memories.

- Theodore Levitt

81. Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future.

- Sally Mann

82. In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.

- James Wilson

83. A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

- Irving Penn

84. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

- Richard Avedon

85. 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

86. Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

- Tony Benn

87. Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.

- Diane Arbus

88. In photography, there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.

- August Sander

89. The camera makes you forget you’re there. It’s not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.

- Annie Leibowitz

90. When I photograph, what I’m really doing is seeking answers to things.

- Wynn Bullock

91. If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it’s already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

- Eve Arnold

92. A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.

- Annie Leibowitz

93. Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

94. A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

- Edward Steichen

95. Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

- Dorothea Lange

96. Photography is a means by which we learn to see the ordinary.

- David Bailey

97. Photography is a medium in which if you don’t do it then, very often you don’t do it at all, because it doesn’t happen twice.

- Paul Strand