The camera is a fluid way of encountering that other reality

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality…

— Maya Angelou

It is hard to go on living without some hope of encountering the extraordinary.

— Harold Bloom

“Everyone knows the experience of encountering other persons only under the aspect of how they intersect with our projects, and of noticing them only…

— John F. Crosby

Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being.

— Rollo May

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not…

— Paul Auster

Let us not be afraid to allow for post-visualization. By post-visualization I refer to the willingness on the part of the photographer to revisualize…

— Jerry Uelsmann

I try to begin working with no preconceived ideas.

— Jerry Uelsmann

All knowledge is self-reflective.

— Jerry Uelsmann

I have gradually confused photography with life.

— Jerry Uelsmann

Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot…

— Elliott Erwitt

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

— Anonymous

I was a photographer. That's how I began my career, behind the camera.

— Shweta Tripathi

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

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

— Ansel Adams

I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a…

— Sebastiao Salgado