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I see no difference between my pictures that people consider amusing and the rest. To me, it's all serious work - they're just a reaction… — Elliott Erwitt
The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination to make many… — Ansel Adams
Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately informative, and pointless.… — John Szarkowski
If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this: See the subject first. Do not try to… — Bill Brandt
It is essential for the photographer to know the effect of his lenses. The lens is his eye, and it makes or ruins his pictures.… — Bill Brandt
The pictures are there, and you just take them. — Robert Capa
Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene,… — Aaron Siskind
In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he thinks will make… — John Szarkowski
Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring. — Berenice Abbott
If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry. — Ruth Bernhard
It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation… — Susan Sontag
Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There… — Robert Heinecken
The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system. — Walker Evans
The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal. — Minor White
The main thing is to study pictures and stop listening to the pontifictaions of photographers. Photographers aren't oracles of wisdom. If they're good photographers, then… — Elliott Erwitt
That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself. — Dorothea Lange
In the absence of a subject with which you are passionately involved, and without the excitement that drives you to grasp it and exhaust it,… — Brassai
Sometimes the simplest pictures are the hardest to get. — Neil Leifer
Little wonder that we. . .find the old pictures of openness - pictures usually without any blur, and made by what seems a ritual of… — Robert Adams
When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time when he must… — Alexey Brodovitch
The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is very interested in… — Alexey Brodovitch
It is every photographer's responsibility to discover new images and a new personal way of looking at things. If he can do this his pictures… — Alexey Brodovitch
It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. But those who have a psssion for nature in the natural… — Henry Ward Beecher
To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the poet she is… — John Burroughs
A father carries pictures where his money used to be. — Steve Martin

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