Thinking should be done before and after, not during…

Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. Success depends on the extent of one's general culture. one's set of values, one's…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Recently, I can't seem to take a straight photograph without thinking that what I am photographing won't be the final image - like the…

— Idris Khan

I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it as a tragedy. Because…

— Joel Meyerowitz

Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely heard of…

— Diane Arbus

Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.

— Edward Weston

I was photographing every meal I ate, every person I met, every waiter or waitress who served me, every bed I slept in, every…

— Stephen Shore

Getting photographs is not the most important thing. For me it's the act of photographing. It's enlightening, therapeutic and satisfying, because the very process…

— Michael Kenna

Snapshots that have been taken of me working show something I was not aware of at all, that over and over again I'm holding…

— Richard Avedon

I did it once, and National Geographic recruited me. I did it primarily out of curiosity. A lot of legendary photographers had worked on…

— Sam Abell

I'm very much interested in water and women in water. I've been photographing that for years although I didn't really know it at the…

— Nan Goldin

I like capturing stuff that is disappearing - that’s the point of photography. What I am photographing is an imaginary place that never existed,…

— Tim Walker

Photographing a cake can be art.

— Irving Penn