“It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most p...” — Bill Brandt Quote

“It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.”

“I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.”

“A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.”

“It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.”

“And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.”

“Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.”

“A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.”

“A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.”

“It's all about consistency, and what makes a child or a dog secure: order, clarity - all those things.”

“People don't understand the devastation the murder of a child does to someone. Eighty percent of parents of murdered children wind up in divorce. The only thing you have in common is that horrible sadness. You can't see the joy of your previous life.”

“We have an incredible national forest service, and we have an incredible child outreach program that the president has put together. I don't see anything wrong with national service for a minimum of two years. If we were to require that, we wouldn't need a draft.”

“I had this child, and it destroyed my family.”