Photo Quotes

Why do most great pictures look uncontrived? Why do photographers bother with the deception, especially since it so often requires the hardest work of all? The answer is, I think, that the deception is necessary if the goal of art is to be reached: only pictures that look as if they had been easily made can convincingly suggest that beauty is commonplace.

We were starting out to make photography an everyday affair, to make the camera as convenient as the pencil.

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.

Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.

The model has to give you the moment. It's not you making it. Then give it to you and you capture it.