[My mother] would have me smothered like the Princes in the Tower if I showed any inclination for being an artist. She thought all artists little bet…

- Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

The photographer sees the world as a child sees the bits of glass in a kaleidoscope. If he has a camera with which he can secure these ever-changing …

- Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

To some an extremely sharp picture may be positively painful, for it will perhaps disturb and break the train of thought, whereas a less-defined one …

- Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

A photograph gives us the naked truth,which has to be clothed by the imagination.

- Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

The person who looks at a photograph as a complete picture, unable to say anything about anything except the facts which existed at the moment of exp…

- Francis Meadow Sutcliffe