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
If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture. That is my way of seeing things.
— Sebastiao Salgado
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
People say photographs don’t lie, mine do.
— David LaChapelle
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
— Ansel Adams
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
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
