Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
-Ansel Adams


I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.
-Minor White


I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
-Diane Arbus


We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.
-Henri Cartier-Bresson


When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
-Imogen Cunningham


Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.
-Alfred Eisenstaedt


The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel cage chase from new lens to new paper to new developer to new gadget, never staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities, becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use since they don't know what to do with it.
-Edward Weston



Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
-Walker Evans


I photograph continuously, often without a good idea or strong feelings. During this time the photos are nearly all poor but I believe they develop my seeing and help later on in other photos. I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.
-Harry Callahan


What do you think has been your contribution to today’s photography ? "Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted."
-Man Ray


Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
-Georgia O'Keefe


Faith can move mountains, but Photoshop is quicker.
-Bill Jay