Photo credit: Robert Collins

“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”
― Marc Riboud

Photo credit: Mari Lezhava

“It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.”
— Paul Caponigro

Photo credit: Greg Rakozy

“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are time and light.”
— John Berger

Photo credit: Malicki M Beser

“Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures.”
— Gregory Crewdson

Photo credit: Peter Herrmann

“Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.”
— Matt Hardy

Photo credit: Emiliano Vittoriosi

“If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.”
— Eve Arnold

Photo credit: Jan Canty

“Photography is a love affair with life.”
— Burk Uzzle

Photo credit: Kristine Weilert

“Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”
— George Eastman

Photo credit: Sander Sammy

“It’s not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.”
— Sebastiao Salgado

Photo credit: Ricardo Gomez Angel

“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.”
— Diane Arbus

Photo credit: Diana Simumpande

“A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.”
— Edward Steichen

Photo credit: Matias Jacobi

“Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph.”
— Andre Kertesz