“Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.”
– Wikipedia
“Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”
– George Eastman
“I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical.”
– Trent Parke
“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
– Karl Lagerfeld
“Photography is for me, a spontaneous impulse that comes from an ever-attentive eye, which captures the moment and its eternity.”
– Henri Cartier Bresson
“To love beauty is to see light.”
– Victor Hugo
“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. You don’t make a photograph just with a camera.”
– Ansel Adams
“Your first 10,000 photos are your worst.”
– Henri Cartier Bresson
“There are two ways of spreading light… To be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.”
– Edith Wharton
“Wait for the light . . .”
– Jack McHugh
“Photography can be about the subject, the story, the emotion, the technique. It is always about the light or its absence. We are out now, chasing the light.”
– Lindsay Holmes & Tom McHugh