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Photography is a struggle. The enemy is time, and you win when you manage to freeze it at the right moment, preventing something that speaks of you and of what is happening from dying and disappearing forever.
— Cristina García Rodero
Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Memory does not preserve films, it preserves photographs.
— Milan Kundera
Photography helps people to see.
— Berenice Abbott
I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical.
— Trent Parke
All the technique in the world doesn’t compensate for the inability to notice something.
— Elliott Erwitt
To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed.
— Susan Sontag
Photography, as we all know, is not real. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
— Arnold Newman
No one asks a writer what kind of computer he uses.
— Tino Soriano
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
— Ansel Adams
Skill in photography is acquired by practice and not by purchase.
— Percy W. Harris
Among the many ways of fighting nothingness, one of the best is making photographs.
— Julio Cortázar
When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.
— Robert Frank
Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs.
— Art Wolfe