“I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.”  – Man Ray

“ Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his picture.” –Henry Ward Beecher

“ A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second. ” –Salman Rushdie (The Ground Beneath Her Feet)

“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” –Jacques Cousteau

“I believe that a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.” –Walt Whitman (Leaves of Grass) 

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” –Dorothea Lange

“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” –Henri Cartier-Bresson

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” -Ansel Adams

“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”  -John Muir