“It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.”

“While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.”

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”

“All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.”

“A lady lion-tamer put her head in a lion's mouth last week, and he bit it off. If a lion attempted to put his head in my mouth I expect I would do the same.”

“Club Secretary: "I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!"T.E. Lawrence: "Ah, well, we can't all be lion tamers.”

“- "I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!"- "Ah, well, we can't all be lion tamers"--------------------------------------"The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.”