"My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it."
Sam Abell
 
"The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking."
Brooks Anderson

"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 1921-1986

"I've never taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse."
Diane Arbus 1923-1971

"Time is short and flows on. Our death comes alone to claim us. The photograph is a cleaver that in eternity knows the instant that dazzles."
Henri Cartier-Bresson 1908-2004

"The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box."
Henri Cartier-Bresson 1908-2004

"Let your words be few, and your exposures many..."

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