"The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning." ~ John Swarkowski
I suffered first as a child from discrimination, poverty ... So I think it was a natural follow from that that I should use my camera to speak for people who are unable to speak for themselves. ~ Gordon Parks
People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs. ~ Annie Leibovitz
I’ve always been obsessed with penetrating the female psyche. When I shoot, I’m like a tornado. I never sit down, never take a break, never eat. I’m focused on getting that moment of revelation, of insight, of poignancy, of meaning.~ Joyce Tenneson, O, 5/01
Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own. ~ Richard Avedon
A picture is like a prayer; you’re offering a prayer to get something, and in a sense it’s like a gift of God because you have practically no control—at least I don’t. ~ Harry Callahan
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. ~ Berenice Abbott
I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated. ~ James Nachtwey
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. ~ Dorothea Lange
Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher. ~ John Swarkowski
Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold. ~ W. Eugene Smith
