“You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.” Ansel Adams
“A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ”Richard Avedon
“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder – a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.”Susan Sontag
“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.” Ansel Adams
“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”Ansel Adams
“Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.”Ansel Adams
“To the complaint, ‘There are no people in these photographs,’ I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.”Ansel Adams