Calm Quote by Drew Barrymore

Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos…

— Arthur Tress

Photographing is an emotional thing, a graceful thing. Photography allows me to wander with a purpose.

— Leonard Freed

Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary recognition of things. Suddenly you're alive. A minute later there was nothing there.…

— Joel Meyerowitz

I think one of the aspects of photography that remains for me is I find the process still frustrating. The counter to that is…

— John Sexton

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

— Steven Pinker

Photography is humbling, it really is, and it really allows for me to atone for some of the missteps I've made throughout the course…

— Jamel Shabazz

Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is about being patient. I'm quiet, I watch the situation. I let things happen and photograph them when they happen; that's my approach,…

— Olivia Arthur

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

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

What I like so much about photography is precisely the moment that cannot be anticipated; one must be constantly on the alert, ready to…

— Martine Franck

One of the things that I most believe in is the compose and wait philosophy of photography. It’s a very satisfying, almost spiritual way…

— Sam Abell

[Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops me. If…

— Sarah Moon