“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.”
– Annie Leibovitz
“When you photograph a face… you photograph the soul behind it.”
– Jean-Luc Godard
“Photography is about capturing souls not smiles.”
– Dragan Tapshanov
“Photography is the beauty of life captured.”
– Tara Chisolm
“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.”
– Robert Frank
“Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.”
– Don McCullin
“I love the people I photograph. I mean, they’re my friends. I’ve never met most of them or I don’t know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.”
– Bruce Gilden
“Whatever situations you’re in, you have to find a way to rock it.”
– Mary Marantz
“Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.”
– Peter Lindbergh
“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”
– Aaron Siskind
“You cannot possibly hit the shutter without leaving a piece of you in the image.”
– Joe Buissink
“I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in.”
– Steve McCurry
“A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.”
– Irving Penn
“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
“If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.”
– Linda McCartney