“The best photo of the day is photo of a kind heart.”
“One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.”
“Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.”
“Photography is inspired by beauty, captured with passion.”
“Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. ”
“I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of like what makes up our lives-those slightly awkward, lovely moments.”
“I wish that all of nature’s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.”
“Photographs are just light and time,”
“Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.”
“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.”
“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 extraordinary.”
“We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.”
“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.”
“In successful photography, you don't just look alive at the photo, but the photo also looks alive at you!”
“To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.”
“Photography is a magical kind of art that allows people to preserve time and moments, and to describe the world the way they see it.”
“The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal.”