“To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.â€
Edward Weston
“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.â€
Susan Sontag, On Photography
“To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.â€
Henri Cartier-Bresson
“For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.â€
Diane Arbus
“These are the two basic controls at the photographer’s command–position and timing–all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to themâ€
David Hurn
“The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.â€
Elliott Erwitt
“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.â€
Susan Meiselas
“Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.â€
Peter Adams
“Don’t shoot what it looks like, shoot what it feels like.â€
David Alan Harvey
“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.â€
Robert Frank