“The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
“Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.” – Henri Cartier Bresson
“To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs', I respond 'There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.'” – Ansel Adams
“A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beauty was not in us, how would we ever recognise it?” – Ernst Haas
“No matter how slow the film. Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.” – Minor White
