The biggest cliche in photography is sunrise and sunset.

Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear.

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

In a world and a life that moves so fast, photography just makes the sound go out and it makes you stop and take a pause. Photography calms me.

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

Contrast is what makes photography interesting.

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

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.

I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'

My photography is the result of being there at the right moment.

First you study photography, then you practice photography, then you serve photography, and finally one becomes photography.

I think that's the strength of photography - to decide the decisive moment, to click in the moment to come up with a picture that never comes back again.

Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Photography has become a small world with so many jealous people. You do a story and then a lot of people try to do the same thing.

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.

The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

Photography is the story I fail to put into words.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.

Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

You don’t take a photograph. You ask quietly to borrow it.

Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.

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

A tear contains an ocean. A photographer is aware of the tiny moments in a persons life that reveal greater truths.

Once you learn to care, you can record images with your mind or on film. There is no difference between the two.

When people ask me what equipment I use – I tell them my eyes.

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

I wish that all of nature’s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

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.

The camera makes you forget you’re there. It’s not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.

One doesn’t stop seeing. One doesn’t stop framing. It doesn’t turn off and turn on. It’s on all the time.

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.

You first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.

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

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

It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future.

The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it’s already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

I don’t trust words. I trust pictures.

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

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.

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

I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.

Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

I think good dreaming is what leads to good photographs.

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.

I love the people I photograph. I mean, they’re my friends. I’ve never met most of them or I don’t know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.

If you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of more interesting stuff.

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.

Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.

Life is like a camera. Just focus on what’s important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things don’t work out, just take another shot.

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

Only photograph what you love.

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.

When I photograph, what I’m really doing is seeking answers to things.

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

Once photography enters your bloodstream, it is like a disease.

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.

La photographie c'est une chose purement intuitive, c'est un plaisir physique.

To take a photograph is to hold one’s breath when all faculties converge in a face of fleeing reality.