Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.
Donald Rumsfeld

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.
Alfred Eisenstaedt

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
Robert Mapplethorpe

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
Berenice Abbott

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
Berenice Abbott

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
Duane Michals

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.
Andre Bazin

Photography helps people to see.
Berenice Abbott

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
Edward Steichen

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
W. Eugene Smith

Photography is a very important part of my life.
Conrad Hall

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.
Aaron Siskind

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.
Andy Goldsworthy

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
Garry Winogrand

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.
Matthew Modine

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
Ansel Adams

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.
Bill Brandt

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
Jean-Luc Godard

Photography must be integrated with the story.
James Wong Howe