My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and…

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument…

— Eve Arnold

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

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

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

You don't make a photograph just with a camera

— Ansel Adams

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

— Eve Arnold

“Sometimes to find the light switch you need to wander in the dark.”

— Aleksandar Marinkov

“A need to wander was in most Russians' blood, particularly the less well-off classes, and without positions, property, and status to fetter them, they…

— Jane Oakley

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

I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph…

— Galen Rowell

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of…

— Susan Meiselas

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

— Edward Steichen

No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and…

— Ken Rockwell

The camera adds a certain sheen to things. Something about being frozen in time really makes things sparkle.

— Brandon Stanton