"To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.”

Dorothea Lange

"A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety."

Ansel Adams

"You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved."

Ansel Adams

"When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice."

Robert Frank

"A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people."

Annie Leibovitz