When your mouth drops open, click the shutter.

If you see something you have seen before, don't click the shutter.

— Alexey Brodovitch

The decision as to when to photograph, the actual click of the shutter, is partly controlled from the outside, by the flow of life,…

— Paul Strand

Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline…

— Alain de Botton

I learned quickly enough when to click the shutter, but what I was becoming aware of more slowly was a story-writer's truth: The thing…

— Eudora Welty

Every time we click the shutter, it's like a new day, a new chance to make a clean start, to be original. It's a…

— Maggie Steber

Photographs are like our children. We put the best of ourselves into them - the best of our vision, our minds, our hearts -…

— Maggie Steber

Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing…

— Harold Feinstein

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

— Ansel Adams

“Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.”

— Ansel Adams

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

— David Hockney

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman…

— Christopher Isherwood

My mom had bought this camera to take classes herself and I remember working with her on it, understanding how the stop-motion [worked], having…

— Jeff Vespa

I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.

— Christopher Isherwood