You don't take a photograph, you make it.
Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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.
If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.
It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
Beauty can be seen in all things.
or simply:
