Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life. 

- Paul Strand

One does not for long wrestle a view camera in the wind and heat and cold just to illustrate a philosophy. The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment of and commitment to what you see, not to what you rationally understand, that balances the otherwise absurd investment of labor. 

- Robert Adams

In the end it all comes down to this: you have a choice (or more accurately a rolling tangle of choices) between giving your work your best shot and risking that it will not make you happy, or not giving it your best shot—and thereby guaranteeing that it will not make you happy. It becomes a choice between certainty and uncertainty. And curiously, uncertainty is the comforting choice. 

- Ted Orland

As photographers we sell emotion not emulsion. The tools are immaterial; the resulting piece is all important.

- Jeff Adams

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

- Dorothea Lange

You see fleeting perfection of form merging with a significant substance, and you make a clicking noise only a hair's breadth away. You have then judged something, reported something, ostensibly truthfully... And when you made a clicking noise you said something eloquently if you are skilled. 

- Burk Uzzle

The list of photographs that I am missing while I sit on airport runways, teach classes or spend hours in the studio makes my head spin. It’s almost as if I can actually sense all the great pictures that I’m missing at a given moment. It’s times like those that remind me to be very productive when I do get behind-the-camera time. 

- Brian Ulrich

Photography has increased my awareness.

- Andreas Carl

All photography is propaganda.

- Martin Parr

Photography is as easy as you are to please.

- James Elliott