Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the ‘ah-ha’. – Ernst Haas

No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want. – Ken Rockwell

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. – Ansel Adams

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. – Berenice Abbott

We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were. We don’t know these lost people but if you look around, you’ll find someone just like them. – Gene McSweeney

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be. – Edward Weston

To manipulate an image is to control a people – Carolyn Gerard

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. – Ansel Adams

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen. – Minor White