"Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph."
               - Andre Kertesz

"People are under the illusion that it's easy...Technically, it is complex. You have a million options with equipment to distract you. I tell my students to simplify their equipment."
                     -Brett Weston

"It takes the passage of time before an image of a commonplace subject can be assessed. The great difficulty of what I attempt is seeing beyond the moment; the everydayness of life gets in the way of the eternal."
            - George Tice

"I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs. The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue. Witness is borne and puzzles come together at the photographic moment which is very simple and complete. The mind-finger presses the release on the silly machine and it stops time and holds what its jaws can encompass and what the light will stain."
                         - Lee Friedlander

"The camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know."
                      - Lisette Model

"Going outside and meeting the challenge of taking what is and making it yours, that’s what photography does for me. It’s not the subject that interests me as much as my perception of the subject."

 

           - Roy DeCarava

"If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything."

                                                                                    -Ruth Bernhard

"You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six."
                                                                        
                                                                                                            -Yogi Berra

"In the immediate world, everything is to be discerned..with the whole of consciousness, seeking to perceive it as it stands: so that the aspect of a street in sunlight can roar in the heart of itself as a symphony, perhaps as no symphony can: and all consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is."
                        -James Agee

"The photograph is a guillotine blade that seizes one dazzling instant in eternity."
                            -Henri Cartier-Bresson

"If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history."
         -Beaumont Newhall

"Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open."              - Margaret Bourke-White

  "If I had a picture of two handcuffed criminals being booked, I would cut the picture in half and get five bucks 
     for each."        
                -Weegee

"It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!"
                    - Jacques-Henri Lartigue

    "Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it."

                              -Morley Baer

     "It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative
       photographer. I see a picture and I make it. If I had a chance, I'd be out shooting  all the
       time. You don't have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous.  You go out
       and the pictures are staring at you."
                                                              -Lee Friedlander

                   "At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us."

                                                                                  - Minor White

"You see fleeting perfection of form merging with a significant substance, and you make a clicking noise only a hair's breadth away. You have then judged something, reported something, ostensibly truthfully... And when you made a clicking noise you said something eloquently if you are skilled."
                             - Burk Uzzle