I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, “This is real, too.”
- Wynn Bullock

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.- Edward Steichen

Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.
- Robert Heinecken

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

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.
- Brooks Anderson

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

The Equipment you’ll leave at home, you’ll need the most. You’re always out of film when you’ll have the best opportunity.
- Murphy’s Rules

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

When photography was invented it was thought to be an equivalent to truth, it was truth with a capital “T”.
- Vicki Goldberg

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do — that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.
- Diane Arbus