I attempt to channel my anger into the tip of my…

I do not understand what makes me take a picture. Cartier-Bresson talks about the decisive moment, the necessity to function with lynx eyes and…

— Graciela Iturbide

The moment when I press the shutter is fantastic, orgasmic, so charged with the hope that this will be a great, original, interesting, and…

— Jean Pigozzi

It’s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.

— Mary Ellen Mark

In a still photograph you basically have two variables, where you stand and when you press the shutter. That's all you have.

— Henry Wessel, Jr

I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.

— Anonymous

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and…

— Garry Winogrand

When I walk with a camera, I walk from shot to shot, reading the light on a calibrated meter. When I walk without a…

— Annie Dillard

There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter.

— Ralph Steiner

When your mouth drops open, click the shutter.

— Harold Feinstein

If you look at most photography, especially the pictures that grab you, they are not objective at all. Sometimes gut wrenching and sometimes lovely,…

— John Filo

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

— David Hockney

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

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

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