These Quotes Were Framed and Included As Part Of The Carr Galley Exhibit:

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
Ansel Adams

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
Joshua Reynolds

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before  going for a walk.
Edward Weston

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
Diane Arbus

Any critic can have his or her own interpretation.
Andres Serrano

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
W. Eugene Smith

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Michelangelo

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
Claude Monet

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso

If there is a good thing about photography, it is that it can be easily enjoyed
Lord Snowdon

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask “how”, while ohters of a more curious nature will ask “why”.  Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
Man Ray

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance.  Each performance differs in subtle ways.
Ansel Adams

A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.
Marl Twain

A photograph is a secret about a secret.
Diane Arbus

A photograph is always seen in some context; physical, remembered, imagined.
Rashid Elisha

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera.
Lewis Hines

Seeing is a creative operation, one that demands effort.
Henri Matisse

I became a tree when I photographed a tree.
Ruth Bernhard

Many an object is not seen, though it falls within our range of visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray, i.e., we are not looking for it.  So, in the largest sense, we find only the world we look for.
Henry Thoreau

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
Ansel Adams