But o, photography! as no art is, faithful and disappointing!
Philip Larkin 1953

The only thing we know for sure is what we experience. If you look at a photograph of somebody crying, you register grief. But in fact, you don't know what people are experiencing at all. You're always protecting your version of what that emotion is. What is known is only what I know. The only truth I know is my own experience. I don't know what it means to be black. I don't know what it means to be a woman. I don't know what it means to be Cartier-Bresson. So I have to define my work in terms of my own truth. That's what the journey is all about, if you are to use your own instincts. The great wonder is that we each have our own validity, our own mysteries. It's the sharing of those gifts that makes artists artists.
Duane Michals

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.
Brooks Atkinson

A definition of a professional photographer: A "pro" NEVER shows anybody the mistakes.

How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that!"

People say photographs don't lie, mine do.
David LaChapelle

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.
Edward Weston