“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”

“If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.”

Ansel Adams (1902–1984) American photographer and environmentalist

“Being photographed does not make a man a good writer. It doesn't make a man anything.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“Photographers are the new Brahmins: we have no volition when they rule us.”

Amit Chaudhuri (1962) contemporary Indian-English novelist

“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!”

Тед Грант (1913–2006) South African activist

“Should you be a teenager blessed with uncommon good looks, document this state of affairs by the taking of photographs. It is the only way anyone will ever believe you in years to come.”

Fran Lebowitz book Social Studies

“My 'idea' has always been my passion. Not only do I have to be a good photographer technically, but also have to be able to capture the emotion of the moment.”

Austin Cofran

“The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness”

Yann Arthus-Bertrand Earth from Above

“What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.”

Roland Barthes (1915–1980) French philosopher, critic and literary theorist

“There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer”

Ansel Adams (1902–1984) American photographer and environmentalist