"The inventor of the camera has a lot to answer for" (Hercule Poirot)

"To photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock" (Edward Weston)

"The pictures are there, and you just take them" (Robert Capa)

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible" (Frank Zappa)

“If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint” (Edward Hopper)

“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs”(Ansel Adams)

“The machine-gun approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results”

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera” (Dorothea Lange)

“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses” (Susan Sontag)

“There are always two people in every photo: the photographer and the viewer” (Ansel Adams)