"One must usurp the power of nature; one must take her place, not depend on the information she gives you"
   — Van Gogh

“If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and he is compassionate, it’s already a lot. The instrument is not the camera, but the photographer”
   — Eve Arnold

"Composition is the strongest way of seeing."
   — Edward Weston

"You don't take a photograph, you make it."
   — Ansel Adams

"The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread"
   — D.H. Lawrence

"Art reveals to us the essence of things, the essence of our existence."
   — Rudolf Arnheim