Nadar

“Nor can you be taught how to grasp the personality of the sitter. That is a matter of tact, and of intuition.”

“But the portrait I am after is a likeness, not a caricature.”

“In photography, as in all things, there are people who can see and others who cannot even look.”

“The theory of photography can be taught in an hour, the basics in a day. But what can't be taught is the feeling for light... It is how light lies on the face that you as artist must capture.”

“What can be learned in a day is how to be a photographer. What can be learned in a lifetime is how to be an artist.”

“Everything is an idea. The more you search for it, the more you find it.”

“Photography is a marvelous discovery, a science that has attracted the greatest intellects, an art that has excited the most astute minds—and one that can be practiced by any imbecile.”