Comment Quote by Marc Riboud

It's a process of getting to know people. That's what photography is to me. It's about paying attention, not screwing up and blowing a…

— Eugene Richards

It is the unexpected and the surprise quality of a personal vision, rather than the emotion, which make people respond to a photograph.

— Alexey Brodovitch

“A photograph is usually the photographer’s subconscious attempted to possess the photographed moment.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“She realized that the photograph had caused his reaction. It came to her almost as a revelation. Think of it: a photographer presses a…

— Soheir Khashoggi

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.

— Robert Frank

But I did not always know just what it was I wanted to photograph. I believe it is important for a photographer to discover…

— Bill Brandt

[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

I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.

— Bill Eppridge

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

I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff,…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Words are difficult and photography takes the words away from things. It's difficult to talk about something that seems to come very naturally to…

— Daria Werbowy