Dorothea Lange

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which photographs can mean much more than this.

I knew the significance of this picture. I felt that this was a picture that had to be made.

The visual representation is the most important thing.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're already dead.

The photographer is interested in seeing, not in talking.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you were to be stricken blind.

It is not enough to photograph the notable men of the age. People are much more than that.

The American dream had been in ruins for so many years that now the people were just picking up the pieces.

I see and then speak as I see; that's my way.

Life is a process, not a result.

The best way to help the poor is to make them self-supporting.

A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.

I've never photographed what I haven't felt.

The world is waiting for us to see it.

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own goodness.

You don't have to make the picture important; the picture will do that.

The more you photograph, the more you see.

I believe that a camera can be a strong arm for a person who uses it for a good purpose.

No one can see beyond his own nose.