“In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated”
August Sander
“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer”
Ansel Adams
“The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth”
Edward Steichen
“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
“A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera”
Dorthea Lange
“Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself”
Berenice Abbott
“Always seeing something, never seeing nothing, being photographer”
Walter Mulder
“Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art”.
Ambrose Bierce
“Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be”
Duane Michals
“It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.”
Alfred Eisenstaedt