What is truth in photography? It can be told in a hundred…

Be pleased with your real garden, don't persue the perfection of a picture. What you see in a photo lasted only as long as…

— Janet Macunovich

Philologically, the word Kodak is as meaningless as a child's first goo. Terse, abrupt to the point of rudeness, literally bitten off by firm…

— George Eastman

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

To be sure the landscape can't run away, and yet I always fear that it may. [Sometimes] I must set up my tripod, so…

— Mario Giacomelli

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

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