René Burri
[Photographer, b. 1933, Zurich, Switzerland, d. 2014, Zurich.]
A digital camera has to be kept in check like a racehorse.
Jeff Wall
[Photographer, b. 1946, Vancouver, Canada, lives in Vancouver.]
I begin by not photographing.
Roland Barthes
[Writer, critic, and theorist, b. 1915, Cherbourg, d. 1980, Paris.]
The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or even of possibility; at the limit, he must defy those of the interesting: the photograph becomes surprising when we do not know why it has been taken.
Frederick H. Evans
[Photographer and bookseller, b. 1853, London, d. 1943, London.]
Photography is photography; and in its purity and innocence is far too valuable and beautiful to be spoilt by making it imitate something else.
(1908)
Edwin Land
[Inventor and entrepreneur, b. 1909, Bridgeport, Connecticut, d. 1991, Cambridge, Massachusetts.]
Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
Martin Parr
[Photographer, b. 1952, Epson, Surrey, England, lives in Bristol and London, England.]
Get out there and do it. If it’s good it will be seen. There is no such thing as a brilliant new contemporary photographer who is undiscovered.
Arno Rafael Minkkinen
[Photographer, b. 1945, Helsinki, Finland, lives in Andover, Massachusetts.]
Be the caretaker of your vision. Make it famous. And above all, remember, that art is risk made visible.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
[Photographer and painter, b. 1908, Chanteloup, France, d. 2004, Paris.]
Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards—never while actually taking a photograph.
