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The thing that’s fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike. -Imogen Cunningham
A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people. -Annie Leibovitz
If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry. -Ruth Bernhard
Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph. -Annie Leibovitz
When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without. -Ansel Adams
If the documentary photograph is to be truly effective it must contain elements of art, intensity, fine craft and spirituality. -Ansel Adams
If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything. -Ruth Bernhard
When you use a camera, not as a machine but as an extension of your heart, you become one with your subject. -Anonymous
Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter. -Annie Leibovitz
As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of a face, a face in transit. Photography has something to do with death. It's a trace. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen. -Minor White
