Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately informative, and pointless. But if one insists in a photograph that is both complex and vigorous it is almost impossible

The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.

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

What's happening is that people are making a billion photographs a year of their cats, frequently with the cats wearing costumes. Do you think I should be doing shows of cat photography?

A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself.

Photography is choosing where to point your eye-cone.

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.