Photographers speak...

I've been asked if I think there will ever come a time when all people come together. I would like to think there will. All we can do is hope and dream and work toward that end. And that's what I've tried to do all my life. Gordon Parks

Photographing a cake can be art. Irving Penn

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn. Pablo Picasso

Every photograph that is made whether by one who considers himself a professional, or by the tourist who points his snapshot camera and pushes a button, is a response to the exterior world, to something perceived outside himself by the person who operates the camera. Eliot Porter

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask "how," while others of a more curious nature will ask "why." Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information. Man Ray

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it...If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better. Galen Rowell

If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture. That is my way of seeing things. Sebastiao Salgado

It’s not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed. Sebastiao Salgado

Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life! John Sexton

A photographer needs to be a good editor of negatives and prints! In fact, most of the prints I make are for my eyes only, and they are no good. I find the single most valuable tool in the darkroom is my trash can -- that's where most of my prints end up. John Sexton