“To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”-Elliott Erwitt

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

"You don't take a photograph, you make it."-Ansel Adams
 

"Life is like a good black and white photograph, there's black, there's white, and lots of shades in between."-Karl Heiner
 

  "The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE."- Ernst Haas
 

"Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools." -Ken Rockwell
 

"If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up."-Richard Avedon
 
"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.”-Cecil Beaton

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” – Dorothea Lange
 
 

“There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.” – Robert Heinecken
 
 

“If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you’re not out there, you’ll only hear about it.” – Jay Maisel