In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he thinks will make the pictures.

Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.

The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.

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

Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings.

Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher.

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