Acts of courage Quote by Laurel Nakadate

A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking.

— John Paul Caponigro

The nature of photography has always resisted that temptation of interpretation. I look, and what I see looks back at me.

— Gerard Malanga

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do…

— Elliott Erwitt

[Photography] is the non-complacence of the eye. To practice my right to look is also a critical attitude. If I stare at you, I…

— Pedro Meyer

[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

Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to…

— Don McCullin

I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed…

— Lee Friedlander

Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.

— Saul Leiter

Photography is about how you look and how you dream and how you see and what your interests are.

— David Doubilet

Photography teaches us to see, and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photograph, I make a wish. I was always…

— George A Tice

Photography has become so fundamental to the way we see that 'photography' and 'seeing' are becoming more and more synonymous. The ubiquity of photography…

— Trevor Paglen

I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.

— David Hockney