"To take photographs means to recognize -- simultaneously and within a fraction of a second -- both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It's putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis."
-- Henri Cartier-Bresson
“Pictures have always been the surest way of conveying an idea, and next in order, words that call up pictures in memory.”
-- Walter Lippmann
“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.”
-- Robert Frank
"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."
-- Robert Capa
"A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people."
-- Annie Leibovitz
"All photographers strive for that special moment that transcends the subject and transcends the place ... that's what is called 'magic.' "
-- Elliott Erwitt
"The question is not what you look at, but what you see."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something."
-- Garry Winogrand
