Important Quote by Antoine D'Agata

I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph.

— Stephen Shore

Photography is an empathy towards the world.

— Lewis Hine

Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.

— Duane Michals

It is the purpose of life that each of us strives to become actually what he or she is potentially. Each photographer, then, should…

— David Hurn

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given.

— Eve Arnold

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

— Gordon Parks

Being a photographer is making people look at what I want them to look at.

— Ruth Orkin

People think photography is about photographing. To me, it’s about relationships.

— Lynsey Addario

The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them.

— Sid Grossman

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

— Paul Strand

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

— Garry Winogrand

Photography is an act of love.

— Jay Maisel