Figure in hoodie, graffiti alley

"You don't take a photograph, you make it."

Ansel Adams
Glass grid ceiling, architectural geometry
Portrait, curly hair, floral blouse
Two men in an elevator

"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst."

Henri Cartier-Bresson
Man in recording studio with headphones
Retro wall clock on orange wall

"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera."

Dorothea Lange
Dancer, floral dress, expressive pose
Man at vanity dressing room table
Overhead figure curled on geometric steps
Vivid floral textile detail, black background

"I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs."

Gordon Parks
Grand reading room, arched ceiling, natural light
Man in hat and suit, Jameson bottle
Decorative vase with white berries

"Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our senses into awareness."

W. Eugene Smith
Person lighting a cigarette, dramatic light and smoke
Cactus spines, black and white macro
Succulent leaves, soft tonal gradients

"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
Woman with sunglasses and Los Angeles mug
Eucalyptus branch, light emerging from dark
Child walking toward sunlight through trees
Man near graffiti wall, cinematic street portrait

"The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with the people you photograph."

Sebastião Salgado
Adidas slides on patterned textile
Child running down suburban street, stop ahead
Child sitting by drainage tunnel
Child in hexagonal sunglasses, looking up