“Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.”
... Helmut Newton

“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
... Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Ms. Horn always had a lot to say about her work ... some of it is quite interesting, but artists don’t own the meaning of their artworks.”
… from a review by Roberta Smith in the New York Times.

“Artists pretend to make art, critics pretend to like it.”
... Martin Toren attempting to explain post modernism

“You want me to say it worse?”
... Robert Frost on being asked to explain one of his poems.

“It is difficult to conceive of democracies surviving without credible witnesses.”
… Fred Ritchin, author of After Photography.

“The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.”
... Harold Evans author of Pictures on a Page.

“Curator’s art is indisputably, even innocuously, elegant, with clear roots in minimal and conceptual art and not much else. It tends to be profusely appreciated by a hermetic few, curators, artists and theorists, who fetishize its refinements and often take its creators pretty much at their word.”
… Edward Winkleman, blogspot

“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”
... Ansel Adams

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
... Marcel Proust

“Colour is watching the movie. Black and white is reading the book.”
... John Denniston

“With the one eye that is closed, one looks within; with the other eye that is open, one looks without.”
... Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?”
... Paul Gauguin

“To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place.
... Elliott Erwitt

“Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.”
... Berenice Abbott

“One photograph out of focus is a mistake ... one hundred photographs out of focus is a style.”
... Author unknown