The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me. - Andre Kertesz
You don't take a photograph, you make it. - Ansel Adams
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. - Eudora Welty
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. - Ansel Adams
Photography is not about cameras, gadgets and gismos. Photography is about photographers. A camera didn't make a great picture any more than a typewriter wrote a great novel. - Peter Adams
Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field. - Peter Adams
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
The thing that is magnificent about photography is that it can produce images that incite emotion based on the subject matter alone. – Brassai
The urge to create, the urge to photograph, comes in part from the deep desire to live with more integrity, to live more in peace with the world, and possibly to help others to do the same. - Wynn Bullock
When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear. - Alfred Eisenstaedt
Photography is a bitter medicine, a wonderful toy, a difficult -yet universal- word. - Mauro Fiorese
When you photograph people in color, you are photographing their clothes. When you photograph them in black and white, you photograph their souls. - Ted Grant
Many people ask me why I am always carrying my cameras, or ask me why I am taking pictures. I often ask them, "Why do you eat?" - James Lalropui Keivom
Photography is a means of recording forever the things one sees for a moment. - Aaron Sussman
We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to others. -Margaret Bourke White, on war and photojournalism
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea Lange
I am gathering evidence for history. - Gilles Peress
Photography is the art of being able to see the world one moment at a time, and still being able to make sense of it all. - Jason Raddin
It's not about moving pixels, it's about pictures that move us. - John Weiss
When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously. - Minor White