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Chance is always there. We all use it. The difference is a poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time. - Brassai

Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph. - Andre Kertesz

Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field. - Bill Brandt

'Life is a journey, photography is thy shepherd'. - Destin Sparks

�In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.� - �mile Zola

�If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.� - H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

�The camera makes you forget you are there. It is not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.� - Annie Leibovitz

�I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.� - Rosie O.Donnell

�A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.� - Brigitte Bardot

�Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It is in the soul of the artist.� - Seth Godin

�Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.� - Alfred Stieglitz

�To photograph is to hold ones breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It is at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.�
- Henri Cartier-Bresson

�A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.� - George Bernard Shaw

�To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.� - Edward Weston

�A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second. � - Salman Rushdie

�For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.� - Henri Cartier-Bresson

�I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.� - Mahatma Gandhi

�When you photograph people in colour, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!� - Ted Grant

There are no bad pictures; that is just how your face looks sometimes.� - Abraham Lincoln

�You do not make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.� - Ansel Adams

Somebody once asked me if I was a Photographer & I replied 'No...I am a human-being...what are you' - Peter Hugo McClure

'Children are not fraught with anything...They are playful... I learnt Geometrism in Photography from Henri Cartier-Bresson' - Stako Abadzic

� Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times�I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.' � Elliott Erwitt

� Which of my photographs is my favourite? The one I�m going to take tomorrow.' � Imogen Cunningham

� I always thought good photos were like good jokes. If you have to explain it, it just isn�t that good.' � Anonymous

This group was started on June 12th, 2013.