Energy Quote by Robert Mapplethorpe

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

— Rineke Dijkstra

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

— Elliott Erwitt

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

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

Photography is an art of observation - it's about creating something extraordinary out of the ordinary. You choose a frame and then wait until…

— Elliott Erwitt

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

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

You have to focus on what you are doing, not just as a photographer, but as a human being.

— Anders Petersen

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced.…

— Sam Abell

Inside movement there is one moment in which the elements are in balance. Photography must seize the importance of this moment and hold immobile…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

In a world and a life that moves so fast, photography just makes the sound go out and it makes you stop and take…

— Drew Barrymore

There is no art which affords less opportunity to execute expression than photography. Everything is concentrated in a few seconds, when after perhaps an…

— Sadakichi Hartmann

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