"There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are."
- Ernst Haas

"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."
- Ansel Adams

"While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see."
- Dorothea Lange

"No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film."
- Robert Adams, Darkroom & Creative Camera Techniques, May 1995

"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."
- Henri Cartier-Bresson

"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera."
- Lewis Hine

"All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."
- Richard Avedon

"The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance."
- Ansel Adams