I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day. I got him and the car. I also got a bit of Aunt Mary’s laundry and Beau Jack, the dog, peeing on the fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and 78 trees and a million pebbles in the driveway and more. It’s a generous medium, photography.

- Lee Friedlander

We seldom take great pictures. You have to milk the cow a lot and get lots of milk to make a little piece of cheese.

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

… put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you.

- Dorothea Lange

I don't have messages in my pictures...The true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film.

- Garry Winogrand

Good photography is not about 'Zone Printing' or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see, or you don't see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.

- Elliott Erwitt

If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it.

- Jay Maisel