A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. Ansel Adams
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. Ansel Adams
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. Ansel Adams
You don’t take a photograph, you make it. Ansel Adams
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are. Ernst Haas
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. Berenice Abbott
Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography. George Eastman
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
The magic of photography is metaphysical. What you see in the photograph isn’t what you saw at the time. The real skill of photography is organised visual lying. Terence Donovan
The problem for an amateur is that he/she has no reason to take a photograph. Terence Donovan
You become things, you become an atmosphere, and if you become it, which means you incorporate it within you, you can also give it back. You can put this feeling into a picture. A painter can do it. And a musician can do it and I think a photographer can do that too and that I would call the dreaming with open eyes. Ernst Haas
My fashion pictures are documents just as much as my boat people or my pictures for Band-Aid of Sudan. David Bailey
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you. Brigitte Bardot
A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it? Ernst Haas
You push the button, we do the rest. George Eastman
The letter K has been a favorite with me – it seems a strong, incisive sort of letter. It became a question of trying out a great number of combinations of letters that made words starting and ending with ‘K’. The word ‘Kodak’ is the result. George Eastman
Photography helps people to see. Berenice Abbott
I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph. Berenice Abbott
Does not the very word ‘creative’ mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act – rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life – not death. Berenice Abbott
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. Berenice Abbott
With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will. Ernst Haas