The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.
~ Elliott Erwitt
What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.
~ Matt Hardy
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
~ Ansel Adams
I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.
~ Diane Arbus
The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.
~ Susan Meiselas
Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
~ Yousuf Karsh
My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.
~ Steve McCurry
I love the people I photograph. I mean, they’re my friends. I’ve never met most of them or I don’t know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.
~ Bruce Gilden
All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
~ Richard Avedon
One doesn’t stop seeing. One doesn’t stop framing. It doesn’t turn off and turn on. It’s on all the time.
~ Annie Leibovitz
What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
~ Karl Lagerfeld