Alertness Quote by Debra Granik

I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see.

— Trent Parke

You have to focus on what you are doing, not just as a photographer, but as a human being.

— Anders Petersen

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that…

— Andy Goldsworthy

Photography is simply a function of noticing things.

— Elliott Erwitt

I find it satisfying that what I've done in photography has had so much influence in how people take photographs and what they look…

— William Klein

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

You learn to see by practice. It's Just like playing tennis, you get better the more you play. The more you look around at…

— Eliot Porter

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

— Ruth Orkin

How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.

— Ansel Adams

When I'm on camera, I have to do things pretty much the way I do things in everyday life. It gives the audience someone…

— Glenn Ford

As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.

— Rineke Dijkstra

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

— Elliott Erwitt