Photographers

“The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding, but you forget — you are just looking so much.”

“You don't take a photograph, you make it.”

“I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits.”

“I want to take photographs that are like fossils of light and time.”

“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.”

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”

“光影是我的画笔，街道是我的画布。”

“Light and shadow are my paintbrush, the street is my canvas.”

“I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.”

“To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality.”

“A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart, and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it.”

“I don't know how to take photographs. I just know how to see.”

“I used to think I couldn't lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I've lost.”

“There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”

“The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.”

“Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.”

“Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future.”

“I went to photograph the end of the world, and I found it.”

“If you wait, people will forget your camera and the soul will drift up into view.”

“I'm a sort of spy.”

“People out of work are not given to talking about it much; in this respect they are like the dead.”

“I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two.”