May Quote by Will Self

A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

— Ansel Adams

Somebody once said to me that photography and writing don't get respect because people think that they can do it, too.

— Danielle Steel

There was a time when one looked over one's shoulder with an ironical smile at the photographer and when photography as a profession seemed…

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next…

— Galen Rowell

Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.

— Alexander Rodchenko

Photography is an empathy towards the world.

— Lewis Hine

Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was.

— Mel Bochner

Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.

— Aaron Huey

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.

— John Szarkowski

Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees… and enables the fortunate…

— George Eastman