"I photograph, therefore I am."

James Wilson

 

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Anais Nin

 

“Your first 10,000 photos are your worst.” -Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

"To me photography is the simultaneous recognition in a fraction of a second the significance of an event, as well as the precise organization the forms that give that event its proper expression." -Henri Cartier-Bresson,

 

"There is nothing in this world that has no decisive moment."

-Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

“The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.” Dirk Bogart

 

"Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual." (Edward Weston)

 

"We don't make a photograph just with a camera, we bring to the act of photography all the books we have read, the movies we have seen, the music we have heard, the people we have loved."; ~ Ansel Adams

 

"Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time. We play with subjects that disappear; and when they’re gone, it’s impossible to bring them back to life. We can’t alter our subject afterward.... Writers can reflect before they put words on paper.... As photographers, we don’t have the luxury of this reflective time....We can’t redo our shoot once we’re back at the hotel. Our job consists of observing reality with help of our camera (which serves as a kind of sketchbook), of fixing reality in a moment, but not manipulating it, neither during the shoot nor in the darkroom later on. These types of manipulation are always noticed by anyone with a good eye." - Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

"Photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them." (Elliott Erwitt)

 

"Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it.

But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and

you will know the key to photography."

~ George Eastman

 

"Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph."

~ Matt Hardy

 

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