"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."

- Robert Capa

"To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart. It's a way of life."

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

"The Decisive Moment."

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

“If you wait, people will forget your camera and the soul will drift up into view.”

- Steve McCurry

"I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated."

- James Nachtwey

"I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself."

- Diane Arbus

"You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw."

- Diane Arbus

"Photo is a small voice, at best, but sometimes - just sometimes - one photograph or a group of them can lure our senses into awareness. Much depends upon the viewer; in some, photographs can summon enough emotion to be a catalyst to thought."

- W. Eugene Smith

“西藏的农民是在一个相对广大的地域里面，世界上最后一个不受任何诱惑的从容不迫地生活的人群。很多人认为藏族是一个很特殊的民族，我一开始拍就没把他们当作一个特殊的民族，为什么呢？任何一个民族在这样一个环境下，也会是这样。因为他们没有任何可能性，我们也曾经经历过，当没有任何可能性的时候，我们都纯粹！因此，其实这7年，我并不是在拍‘西藏的农民’，我是在拍‘人的生活’——我们当初曾经也经历过，但在大多数地方已经消失的人类健康的质朴的生活。”

- 吕楠