A selfie is proof that either we are very lonely or too self-absorbed to ask others to take our picture.

Saru Singhal

 

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

Ansel Adams

 

 

 

Taking pictures is savouring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

Marc Riboud

 

What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

Karl Lagerfeld

 

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.

Edward Weston

 

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Richard Avedon

 

I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport. 

Bill Brandt

 

If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough

Robert Capa

 

Your first 10.000 photographs are your worst. 

Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

Which of my photographs is my favourite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

Imogen Cunningham

 

A portrait is not made in the camera, but on either side of it. 

Edward Steichen

 

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

Robert Doisneau

 

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

Ansel Adams

 

The important thing in photography is not the camera, but the eye.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

 

Seeing is not enough, you have to feel what you photograph.

Andre Kertesz

 

Seeing the smallest dewdrop, you can stand in awe of perfection.

John Sexton

 

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. 

Ansel Adams

 

Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary object so you can transferm it by photographing it. 

Morley Baer

 

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

 

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see it.

Confucius

 

If you wait, people forget your camera and the soul will drift up into view.

Steve McCurry