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| Bart | Photography is a language - John R. Whiting | | |
| Bart | There is no such thing as reality in graphic expression. - Ansel Adams | | |
| Bart | New devices, systems, equipment and materials applicable to all aspects of the process have supplanted those which were concidered effective decades ago - Ansel Adams | | |
| Bart | The photographer and his work must dominate his equipment, not the other way around - Ansel Adams | | |
| Bart | Blind devotion to any particular equipment... can have deleterious results - Ansel Adams | | |
| Bart | The literature of photography is replete with repetitions of errors and questionable or obsolete formulas and procedures - Ansel Adams | | |
| Bart | We must always remember that the ultimate objective of photography is the picture, not the manipulation of equipment and systems - Ansel Adams | | |
| Bart | [Photographic] mechanics have litlle or no meaning in themselves but are often exaggerated beyond reason... - Ansel Adams | | |
| Bart | All art is the balance between the externaland the internal - Samuel Taylor Coleridge | | |
| Bart | ...the so-called "rules" of photographic composition are, in my opinion, invalid, irrelevant and immaterial... - Ansel Adams | | |
| Bart | Most great photographers violate "pictoral rules" - Ansel Adams | | |
| Bart | Countless photographs are dull and unrewarding simply because they convey the surface light and shadow of the world - not the substance or the spirit - Ansel Adams | | |
| Bart | The difference between the creative approach and the factual approach is one of purpose, sensitivity and the ability to visualize an emotionally and aesthetically exciting image - Ansel Adams | | |
| excelguru | I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it. - Berenice Abbott | | |
| excelguru | Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term: selectivity. - Berenice Abbott | | |
| excelguru | I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse. - Diane Arbus | | |
| excelguru | I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them. - Diane Arbus | | |
| excelguru | Think about the photo before and after, never during. - Henri Cartier-Bresson | | |
| excelguru | 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 | | |
| excelguru | It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country. - Bill Brandt | | |
| excelguru | ...photography has no rules. - Bill Brandt | | |
| Bart | I think... therefore I am. I am micromanaged... therefore I am NOT... - Dilbert | | |
| General Cornwallis | Vini, vidi vici - I came, I saw, I conquored. | | |
| Bart | I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them. - Ansel Adams | | |
| excelguru | You can't build a reputation on what you're GOING to do. - Henry Ford | | |
| excelguru | You'll be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. - Mark Twain | | |
| excelguru | Goals that are not written down are only slogans. - Unknown | | |
| excelguru | Destiny is no matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved. - William Jennings Bryan | | |
| Kathy | “Which of the photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.” – Imogen Cunningham | | |
| Richard | "All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth." - Richard Avedon | | |
| excelguru | "Captured on CMOS" just doesn't sound right. - excelguru | | |
| juha | "The real voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust | | |
| juha | "When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls!" - Ted Grant | | |
| juha | "A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into." - Ansel Adams | | |
| juha | "There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs." - Ansel Adams | | |
| juha | "All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth." - Richard Avedon | | |
| juha | "You don't take a photograph, you make it." - Ansel Adams | | |
| juha | "Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure." - Tony Benn | | |
| juha | "Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man." - Edward Steichen | | |
| juha | "The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance." - Ansel Adams | | |
