“I see a camera like a musical instrument. Just start playing it. Whatever camera you can get your hands on. Learning HOW to play is more important than WHAT brand you’re playing the music with.”— Ryan Pernofski, twitter.com
“I’m exhausted by pictures, I find their presence increasingly intrusive, even though I’m addicted to gazing at them”— Richard Turley, dazeddigital.com
“'Do you have a camera?' Thalia said. 'No.' 'Have you ever taken a picture?' 'No.' 'And you want to be a photographer?' 'You find that strange?' 'A little.' 'So if I said I wanted to be a policeman, you'd think that was strange too? Because I've never slapped handcuffs on anyone?'”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“In the print world a small group of professional photographers made money selling their photos; in the digital world everyone’s a creative and exposure is the new currency.”— Jason Goldberg, medium.com
“Photos published on Unsplash are seen by more people than if they were published on any other platform in the world.”— Luke Chesser, twitter.com
“Moving forward, Google has agreed to make changes in Image Search, including making the copyright disclaimer more prominent and removing the view image button. In addition, we're announcing that Getty Images and Google have embarked on a global strategic partnership that will see deeper integration…”— Getty Images, iStock, app.engage.gettyimages.com
“If there is a neon sign within reach, I will be taking a photo of it.”— Brandon Woelfel, twitter.com
“I just wanted to create powerful images and use photography as a medium much in the same way as a painter uses paint as a medium.”— Michael Spencer Jones, itsnicethat.com
“PSA: You don’t have to count “1 2 3” when you take pictures now. Just take a million in like 2 seconds & keep it moving.”— Kumail Nanjiani, twitter.com
“When everyone is doing the same thing, how are you going to add your little spin to it?”— Andrew Kearns, fieldmag.com
“I love photos that have that feel good sense and expression in the photos. You can relate to it or it can remind you of a good time in your life or something that you’re going through.”— Brandon Woelfel, shopcatalog.com
“I swear I know my friends faces better than they know their own from editing photos of them.”— Brandon Woelfel, twitter.com
“Taking pretty pictures of pretty people is almost as boring as landscape photography.”— Jesse Herzog, twitter.com
“Today, a photo featured on Unsplash is seen more than a photo on any other platform. More than Instagram. More than the front page of the New York Times.”— Mikael Cho, medium.com
“I went to a pawnshop and bought my first camera. It was a Voigtlander Brilliant. It cost $12.50. I took it down to Puget Sound to photograph some seagulls, and damned if I didn't fall into the water -- but I held onto the camera!”— Gordon Parks, rogerebert.com
“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby a true expression of what one feel about life in its entirety.”— Ansel Adams, amazon.com
“The 'machine-gun' approach to photography — by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good — is fatal to serious results.”— Ansel Adams, amazon.com