An artist is a person who seeks new structures in which to order and simplify his sense of the reality of life.

--- John Szarkowski

You have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

--- Miles Davis

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

--- Lisette Model

The camera is my tool. With its help I make sense of everything that surrounds me.

--- André Kertész

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

--- Teju Cole

Street photography is really tough, because we’re looking for something that’s not really there.

--- Jack Simon

The street photography community needs fewer street photographers and more editors, publishers, curators, and informed and fair critics, to say nothing of a genuinely interested audience.

--- Michael Ernest Sweet

Your first ten thousand photos are your worst.

--- Henry Cartier-Bresson

Photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, but it is the hardest medium in which to have a personal vision.

--- Chuch Close

The photographer has a capacity to read all of this flux of daily life and see in it, in that tiny moment, some truth.

--- Joel Meyerowitz