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The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.

Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.

A camera has interesting ideas of its own.

The photographer's vision convinces us to the degree that the photographer hides his hand.

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.

Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher.

Photography is choosing where to point your eye-cone.

Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ...

It isn't what a picture is of, it is what it is about.

The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive.

A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself.

The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.