Quotes by
Matthew Brady

Results are uncertain even among the more experienced photographers.

The camera is the eye of history.

I had great trouble in making a natural picture. When I got him before the camera I asked if I might arrange his collar, and with that he began to pull it up. “Ah,” said Lincoln, “I see you want to shorten my neck.” “That’s just it,” I answered, and we both laughed.

A spirit in my feet said 'go', and I went.

No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life.