It's not what you look at that matters. It's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
We are a landscape of all we have seen.
Isamu Noguchi
Observation is a dying art.
Stanley Kubrick
We see things not as they are, we see things as we are.
Anais Nin
The things seen enter into us.
Joseph Pieper
Making a photograph is the act of giving permanence to something transient.
Freeman Patterson
Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.
Minor White
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place....I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
Elliott Erwitt