“A better camera won’t do a thing for you if you don’t have anything in your head or in your heart.”
– Arnold Newman
Wise Words of Photography
“Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.”
– Diane Arbus
Wise Words of Photography
“A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.”
– Saul Leiter
Wise Words of Photography
“Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.”
– Peter Adams
Wise Words of Photography
“A photographer is sometimes a passerby and sometimes a sojourner. But that only changes his perspective, not the act of continually looking. A photographer cannot cure like a doctor, cannot defend like a lawyer, cannot analyze like a scholar, cannot comfort like a priest, cannot bring laughter like a comic storyteller, cannot transport like a singer. He can only look. That’s enough. No, that’s all there is. To a photographer, looking is everything. That’s why he must continue looking from start to finish. He gazes at the subject straight on, he faces the world with his whole being transformed into a pair of eyes. A photographer is one who stakes everything on looking.”
– Shōmei Tōmatsu
Wise Words of Photography
“If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it’s a street photograph”
— Bruce Gilden
Wise Words of Photography
“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
— Elliott Erwitt
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