Photography is...
- "an austere and blazing poetry of the real" -- Ansel Adams
- "the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision" -- Sebastian Smee
- "the preservation of the world" -- Eliot Porter
- "a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality" -- Alfred Stieglitz
- "the dominant and fascinating and only folk art of the twentieth century" -- Sir John Rotherstein
- "[a means by which we]...learn to see the ordinary" -- David Bailey
- "The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera" -- Dorothea Lange
