Thoughts on photography

• The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes. ~ Marcel Proust
  

• Photography is not only my passion but a means of connecting with the moment and giving meaning to it. Creating images enables me to examine and experience life as its layers unfold and lead me on a perpetual journey. Life is rich and invites us to its feast. ~ Bonnie Schupp
  

• With the click of a shutter, I believe I can give shape to the intangible and define what the greatest mind cannot define. Is that hubris? ~ Bonnie Schupp

• Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow. ~ Imogen Cunningham

• While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. ~ Dorothea Lange

• There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. ~ Ansel Adams

• All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this, as in other ways, they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it. ~ John Berger

• The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality. ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

• Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man. ~ Edward Steichen

• The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own. ~ Susan Sontag

• 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. ~ Eve Arnold

• Take pictures of what you fear. ~ Diane Arbus

• The mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us. ~ Harry Callahan

• The key is to not let the camera, which depicts nature in so much detail, reveal just what the eye picks up, but what the heart picks up as well. ~ Paul Caponigro

• Photography is nothing--it's life that interests me. ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

• 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

• What matters is not what you photograph, but why and how you photograph it. Even the most controversial subject, if depicted by a sensitive photographer with honesty, sympathy, and understanding, can be transformed into an emotionally rewarding experience. Andreas Feininger

• Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. ~ Robert Frank 

• I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new. ~ Ernest Hass

• ...photographs open doors into the past but they also allow a look into the future. ~ Sally Mann 

• We don't take pictures with our cameras. We take them with our hearts and we take them with our minds, and the camera is nothing more than a tool. ~ Arnold Newman

• 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

• I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery. ~ Paul Strand  

• You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus. ~ Mark Twain 

• The camera is a fluid way of encountering that other reality.. ~ Jerry Uelsmann

• To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees. ~ Paul Valery

• The goal is not to change your subjects, but for the subject to change the photographer ~ Author Unknown