Favourite Quotes

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
- Dorothea Lange

“Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.”
- Peter Adams

" In whatever one does, there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart. With the one eye that is closed, one looks within. With the eye that is open, one looks without." 

- Henri Cartier Bresson

"The camera always points both ways. In expressing your subject, you also express yourself."
- Freeman Patterson

"The meaning of life is to see."

- Sixth Zen Patriarch Hui-Neng

"We set aside the photographers we have become, while still drawing on the skills we've acquired over the years, to reawaken awareness of the childlike mind that is the heart of creativity."

- Sean Kernan

"A creative image is not a record of a scene, or a substitute for a real experience; it is an experience in itself - an aesthetic experience - something the artist has given to the world, rather than a contrived view of something that already existed independent of the artist." 

- Guy Tal

"The photographs capture a moment in time, a fleeting feeling or thought, a hope or fear. This is Mindful Photography."

- Lee Aspland

"Photography is about putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis."

- Henri Cartier Bresson

"The aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

- Aristotle