“Teach your children photography, and they will never have money for drugs.” - Trenton
“Photography has nothing to do with cameras” - Lucas Gentry
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” - Dorothea Lange
“We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.” - Ralph Hattersley
“Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.” - Diane Arbus
“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
“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.” - Diane Arbus
“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 Leibovitz
“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.” - Ansel Adams
“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.” - Diane Arbus
“When people ask me what equipment I use – I tell them my eyes.” - Anonymous
“I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.” - Diane Arbus
“All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.” - Richard Avedon
“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.” - Joan Miro
“If you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of more interesting stuff.” - Jim Richardson
“Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.” - Yousuf Karsh
“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson
“You don’t take a photograph. You ask quietly to borrow it.” - Unknown
“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
“Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. 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
“A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.” - Edward Steichen
“The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.” - Scott Lorenzo
“Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.” - Matt Hardy
“Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.” - Imogen Cunningham