Here are some of my favorite photographic quotes:

"I can look at a fine photograph and sometimes I can hear music." - Ansel Adams

"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses." - Susan Sontag

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

"To be a better nature photographer, be a better naturalist." - John Shaw

"We don't make a photograph just with a camera; we bring to the act of photography all the books we have ever read, the movies we have seen, the music we have heard, the people we have loved." - Ansel Adams

"Photographic styles...based on the qualities of light and form will remain equally valid in whatever new technologies evolve." - Galen Rowell

"Cameras and lenses are simply tools to place our unique vision on film. Concentrate on equipment and you'll take technically good photographs. Concentrate on seeing the light's magic colors and your images will stir the soul." - Jack Dykinga

"It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary." - David Bailey

"A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words." - Ansel Adams

"The more you simplify your vision, the stronger your images will be." - John Shaw

"If you are not passionate about photography you will never be a good photographer." - Denis Graham

I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, "This is real, too." - Wynn Bullock

"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed." - Ansel Adams

"David says that a bad photograph is a paragraph; a good photograph is a sentence; a great photograph is a phrase." - David Middleton

"The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking." - Brooks Anderson

"Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself." - Berenice Abbott

"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment." - Ansel Adams

"Three separate elements must come together in the creation of a photograph: technical proficiency, fine light, and an identifiable personal vision." Galen Rowell

"Notebook. No photographer should be without one!" - Ansel Adams

"Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph." - Robert Heinecken

"Experimentation is the essence of learning photography and becoming a photographer." Denis Graham