Balance Quote by Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.

— Anonymous

Photography must seize upon this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it. The photographers eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment... when one thing changes into something else.

— Andre Kertesz

Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from…

— Ralph Gibson

Photography means releasing oneself from one type of gravity and placing oneself in a space where a different force is trying to move you.

— Shomei Tomatsu

“Photography is not purely a mechanical process. You need to know how to look, where to point the camera, and when to press the…

— Andy Karr

My photographs are not just about the instant of movement you capture in the camera. It's much more total, about constant movement that became…

— Gabriel Orozco

A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.

— Bill Brandt

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

— Rineke Dijkstra

The photography is not the aim of the work; the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on…

— Andy Goldsworthy