Command Quote by Stanley Cavell

In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick...Like an animal and a prey.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

— Ansel Adams

The photographer must be absorbent, like a blotter, allow himself to be permeated by the poetic moment...His technique should be like an animal function...he…

— Robert Doisneau

The act of photography is like going on a hunt in which photographer and camera merge into one indivisible function. This is a hunt…

— Vilem Flusser

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

— Rineke Dijkstra

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

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

— Andre Kertesz

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

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

— W. Eugene Smith

Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can't see watches you.

— Dorothea Lange

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