There are levels upon levels of perspectives we must consider when we try to understand our individual perceptions of things, or when we try to relate our own perceptions to those of our brothers and sisters.  Every single one of our previous experiences in life will affect in some way the mental perspective from which we see the world around us. ~Hyemeyohsts Storm

The photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars. ~Guy Le Querrec

I see my photographs as meditations, it is as simple as that.  To be understood they must be experienced - felt, seen, known.  Consequently, I often use the medium of the landscape, for everyone, in some small way, has some very personal relation to the land - thus they are ready (and willing) to come in to look, if not into, at least at the landscapes I produce.  I have trapped them!  For if I have made the concept of the photographs strong enough, the viewer will begin to still himself for, indeed, I make Still photographs - and with the coming of stillness comes the possibility of a deep meditational understanding and seeing.  And seeing leads to Vision. And my photographs are there mainly as pointers, indications, of a vision of possibilities where stillness and silence abound - and where Light is understood to be a substantial reality.  My photographs are my greatest teachers.  It is my hope that they offer a moment of pleasure to my viewer - and perhaps a tiny hit of (mutual?) understanding... but, as always, I have no expectations. ~Thomas Joshua Cooper

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium.  It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding. ~Edward Steichen

An artistic photograph is about the response of the photographer to [the] subject of the photograph.  It is about the person to takes the photograph first and about the subject of the photograph second.  In fact, the more a photograph veers in the direction of art, the more it becomes an image about the photographer and less an image about the subject itself. ~Alain Briot

The brain's statistically-informed schemas (internal representations of external conditions or processes) are endowed with genetic wisdom, refined by accumulated individual experience and updated continuously by the senses.  They aren't perfect and can't be perfect, but they're good enough to live by - most of the time. ~Jeremy McCreary

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. ~John Lennon

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.  ~Henri Cartier-Bresson

I began to realize that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.  ~Galen Rowell

Well, I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. Or maybe inspire them, or perk them up. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent, and kind of an eye. ~Imogene Cunningham

The challenge for me was to photograph what I felt, not just what I saw. ~Katrin Eismann

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.  ~Harry Callahan

The camera is not a creative being but the human who wields it is.  We see.  In fact, everyone sees, hence photography's universality.  The role of the artist, however, is to see what others do not see - or cannot see - and to make the invisible visible. ~Brooks Jensen

Content is more than subject matter. It is all the feelings and ideas you bring to your painting. ~Rene Huyghe

Your photos are throughout our house now and everyone is just amazed at your work. I never get tired of looking at them. It's almost a euphoric experience each time [I] glance by one.

~ Brian Elledge

Thanks for the opportunity to view your beautiful photography work. Your work is absolutely gorgeous and I am really envious.

~Steve Gong