Photograph:  a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.  

~Ambrose Bierce

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All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most, I shot.

- Ernst Haas

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Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished

there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

- Henri Cartier Bresson

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Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do.

Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.

- Pablo Picasso

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Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, 

too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.  

~Minor White
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I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

- Diane Arbus

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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 extraordinary.

~David Bailey

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Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they

carried within them a sense of wonder,

yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.

~Bill Brandt

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‘To the complaint, ‘there are no people in these photographs,’ I respond,

‘There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.’

~Ansel Adams

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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

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I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed.

And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer.

~Alfred Eisenstaedt

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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

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Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

~Yousuf Karsh

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My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

~Edward Weston  

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When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes.  

But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls!  

~Ted Grant