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Photography is an act of love.

Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.

I like photographers-you don't ask questions.

A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.

The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.

You have to be ready for luck.

I was making photographs of the world long before I was a photographer.

For me a photograph is most successful when it doesn't answer all the questions and it leaves something to be desired.

Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button.

In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.

No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want.

A photographer went to a socialite party in New York. As he entered the front door, the host said 'I love your pictures - they're wonderful; you must have a fantastic camera.' He said nothing until dinner was finished, then: 'That was a wonderful dinner; you must have a terrific stove.

PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

I've finally figured out what's wrong with photography. It's a one-eyed man looking through a little 'ole. Now, how much reality can there be in that?

No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph.

Photography is like making cheese. It takes a hell of a lot of milk to make a small amount of cheese just like it takes a hell of a lot of photos to get a good one.

F8 And Be There! For years, this was the cry of the photojournalist. It meant that 90% of a great photo was being in the right place at the right time. True, it was simplistic, but in the Age of Photoshop, this maxim is too often forgotten. No matter how much you play with the bits and bytes, the best images always start out with a great vision, clearly and cleanly seen.

A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

It's up to us as photographers to give voice to the natural world.