Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
— Tony Benn
I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
— John Steinbeck
Actually, I’m not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I’m not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren’t cooks.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
— Ansel Adams
The problem for an amateur is that he/she has no reason to take a photograph.
— Terence Donovan
People say photographs don’t lie, mine do.
— David LaChapelle
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary, it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.
— David Bailey
I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.
— Diane Arbus
Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask “how,” while others of a more curious nature will ask “why.” Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
— Man Ray
When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I’d like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.
— Annie Leibovitz
If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.
— Robert Capa
If I knew how to take a good photograph, I’d do it every time.
— Robert Doisneau
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