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Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time -- this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones.

You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory.

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

A photograph is neither taken nor seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do -- that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

When photography was invented it was thought to be an equivalent to truth, it was truth with a capital "T".

I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.

To manipulate an image is to control a people

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.

The Equipment you'll leave at home, you'll need the most. You're always out of film when you'll have the best opportunity.

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

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.

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

Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, "This is real, too."

Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited and the wealth and confusion man has created.

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.