Firsts Quote by Martin Parr

To teach consequential photography, don't bother with Photoshop or f-stops. Create a craving for images.

— Douglas McCulloh

Photography used to be not for the faint of heart. Its rigors would weed out the not-so-committed pretty quickly. You had to crank the…

— Joe McNally

You become technically proficient whether you want to or not, the more you take pictures.

— William Eggleston

I had no idea how I wanted to get into photography, but I just knew I wanted to do it.

— Daniel Berehulak

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

— Elliott Erwitt

I started making photographs as if I were a child myself. This got me to look at things more closely, more slowly, and from…

— Abelardo Morell

The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography, so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much…

— Graeme Le Saux

Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

It's a lot easier to take pictures if you always have the camera with you.

— Jay Maisel

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.

— Pablo Picasso

It took me a long time to get comfortable with the idea of being photographed by a moving or still camera.

— Cate Blanchett

I've been into photography for years and I do it as often as possible. I'm just trying to develop myself.

— C. J. Wilson