“All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this — as in other ways — they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.”

John Berger (English Painter, b.1926)

“A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same.”

(Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

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

Wynn Bullock

“A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.”

Brigitte Bardot (French motion-picture Actress and Model, b.1934 Paris , France )

“Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.”

Yousuf Karsh (Turkish born Canadian Photographer and Journalist, He is best known for portraits of the great personages of his time, e.g. Winston Churchill, in Life Magazine. 1908-2002)

“I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.”

Man Ray (American Photographer, Painter and Film Director who was the only American to play a major role in both the Dada and Surrealist movements. 1890-1976)

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

Ansel Adams (American Photographer, 1902-1984)

“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.”

Ansel Adams (American Photographer, 1902-1984)

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

Ansel Adams (American Photographer, 1902-1984)

“It’s marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I’m going to photograph everything, everything!”

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

“A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.”

Ansel Adams (American Photographer, 1902-1984)

“A photograph is a portrait painted by the sun”

“Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.”

Dorthea Lange

“Think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.”

Duane Michals

“Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.”

W. Eugene Smith

“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.”

Diane Arbus (American Photographer 1923-1971)

“To enter Europe , you must have a valid passport with a photograph of yourself in which you look like you are being booked on charges of soliciting sheep.”

Dave Barry (American Writer  b.1947)

“Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and the wonder surrounding him.”

Ansel Adams (American Photographer, 1902-1984)

“To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.”

Henri Cartier-Bresson (French Photographer, 1908-2004)

“A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.”

Ansel Adams (American Photographer, 1902-1984)

“Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.”

Henri Cartier-Bresson (French Photographer, 1908-2004)

“When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I’d like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.”

Annie Leibovitz

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

Diane Arbus (American Photographer 1923-1971)

“The photograph itself doesn’t interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.”

Henri Cartier-Bresson (French Photographer, 1908-2004)

“Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, “Gee, I’m glad I have that moment.””

John Loengard

“While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.”

Lewis Hine

“Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison d’être. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison d’être, which lives on in itself.”

Andre Kertesz

“Some photographers take reality…and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.”

Ansel Adams (American Photographer, 1902-1984)

“A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.”

Susan Sontag (American Writer, Activist and Critic, 1933-2004)

“Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.”

Edward Weston

“The camera can photograph thought”

Dirk Bogarde

“When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track.”

Arthur Fellig

“To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.”

Ansel Adams (American Photographer, 1902-1984)

“I try to photograph people’s spirits and thoughts. As to the soul-taking by the photographer, I don’t feel I take away, but rather that the sitter and I give to each other. It becomes an act of mutual participation.”

Yousuf Karsh (Turkish born Canadian Photographer and Journalist, He is best known for portraits of the great personages of his time, e.g. Winston Churchill, in Life Magazine. 1908-2002)

“Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.”

Edward Weston

“I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!”

Ansel Adams (American Photographer, 1902-1984)

“I think you have to have a real point of view that’s your own. You have to tell it your way. And, I think that it’s a mistake to shoot for a specific magazine’s point of view because it’s never going to be as good. You have to shoot for yourself and photograph the way you believe it.”

Mary Ellen Mark

“I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn’t want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.”

Brigitte Bardot (French motion-picture Actress and Model, b.1934 Paris , France )

“It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph — only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.”

Susan Sontag (American Writer, Activist and Critic, 1933-2004)

“It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.”

David Bailey (English Photographer, b.1938)

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

Ansel Adams (American Photographer, 1902-1984)

“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”

Susan Sontag (American Writer, Activist and Critic, 1933-2004)

“In America , the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.”

Susan Sontag (American Writer, Activist and Critic, 1933-2004)

“Notebook. No photographer should be without one!”

Ansel Adams (American Photographer, 1902-1984)

“Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.”

Edward Weston