It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera…

A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do…

— Arnold Newman

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.

— William Klein

There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

As photojournalists, we supply information to a world that is overwhelmed with preoccupations and full of people who need the company of images…We pass…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

In fact, I probably learned more about photography from studying black-and-white photography in those magazines [Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine] than I did from…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia.

— Rene Burri

One teacher told me that my work belonged in the trash. That day I ran out of the classroom and ended up in the…

— Jose Parla

When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!

— Ted Grant

“Love is the color in the black and white photography!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not…

— Ansel Adams