"It's not what you look at that matters, it is what you see." Henry David Thoreau

"The camera is the least important element in photography" Julius Shulman

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

"We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory"

Henri Cartier-Bresson

"Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand" 

Margaret Bourke-White

"It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter" Alfred Eisenstaedt

"There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself,

for what we see is what we are" Ernst Haas

"I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice" Minor White