It isn't what a picture is of, it is what it is about.

To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.

The central act of photography, the act of choosing and eliminating, forces a concentration on the picture edge - the line that separates in from out - and on the shapes that are created by it.

Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher.

They were ... pure and unadulterated photographs, and sometimes they hinted at the existence of visual truths that had escaped all other systems of detection.

The simplicity of photography lies in the fact that it is very easy to make a picture. The staggering complexity of it lies in the fact that a thousand other pictures of the same subject would have been equally easy.

Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.