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Photography Quotes by Famous Photographers
1. “Photography helps people to see.” — Berenice Abbott
2. Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
3. “Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.” – Ansel Adams
4. “Photography is the story I fail to put into words.” – Destin Sparks
5. “There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.” – Ansel Adams
6. “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” – Ansel Adams
7. “For me, the camera is a sketchbook, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
8. “Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.” — Don McCullin
9. “When I photograph I make love.” – Alfred Stieglitz
10. “We will start from one of my most favorite quotes from the photography legend.” – Ansel Adams
11. “The negative is the equivalent of the composer’s score and the print the performance.” – Ansel Adams
12. “There is one thing the photo must contain – the humanity of the moment.” – Robert Frank
13. “Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.” – Aaron Siskind
14. “It’s not enough to just own a camera. Everyone owns a camera. To be a photographer, you must understand, appreciate, and harness the power you hold!” – Mark Denman
15. “If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you’re not out there, you’ll only hear about it.” – Jay Maisel
16. “Photography is the art of making memories tangible.” – Destin Sparks
17. “When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!” – Ted Grant
18. “A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.” – Ansel Adams
19. “A good snapshot keeps a moment that s gone from running away.” – Eudora Welty
20. “Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.” – Duane Michals
21. “If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.” – Don McCullin
22. “It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart, and head.” -Henri Cartier-Bresson
23. “A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.” – Edward Steichen
24. “It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.” – Paul Caponigro
25. “Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.” – Diane Arbus
26. “A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.” – Annie Leibovitz
27. I go and get the camera and do it. Photography is a medium in which if you don’t do it then, very often you don’t do it at all, because it doesn’t happen twice.” – Paul Strand
28. “The photo that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.” – Scott Lorenzo
29. “In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.” – James Wilson
30. “Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.” – Paul Strand
31. “If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it’s already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.” – Eve Arnold
32. “Photographers stop photographing subjects too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.” – Dorothea Lange
33. “Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.” – Marc Riboud
34. “Once you learn to care, you can record images with your mind or on film. There is no difference between the two.” – Anon
35. “Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.” – Ambrose Bierce
36. “My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera’s eye may entirely change my idea.” – Edward Weston
37. “Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.” – Jean-Luc Godard
38. “The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.” – Susan Sontag
39. “A good photograph is knowing where to stand.” – Ansel Adams
40. “It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.” – Ansel Adams
41. “The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” – Dorothea Lange
42. “Actually, I’m not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the photo is in the box, I’m not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren’t cooks.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
43. “The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.” – Susan Sontag
44. “In my mind, I visualize how a particular… sight will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.” – Ansel Adams
45. “The camera makes you forget you’re there. It’s not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.” – Annie Leibovitz
46. “If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.” – Linda McCartney
47. “To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
48. “There are always two people in every photo: the photographer and the viewer.” – Ansel Adams
49. “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.” – Diane Arbus
50. “Always shoot from the shadow side.” – Ted Grant
Inspirational Photography Quotes
51. “Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.” – George Eastman
52. “What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” – Karl Lagerfeld
53. “The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.” – Paul Strand
54. “God creates the beauty. My camera and I are a witness.” – Mark Denman
55. “Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
56. . “Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.” – Matt Hardy
57. “If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera.” – Lewis Hine
58. “Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary.” -Harold Feinstein
59. “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” – Ansel Adams
60. “It’s amazing how photography can capture just a split second of something exquisite.” – Kiera Cass
61. “The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?” – Edward Weston
62. “I love the people I photograph. I mean, they’re my friends. I’ve never met most of them or I don’t know them at all, yet through the image, I live with them.”– Bruce Gilden
63. “Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.” – Martin Parr
64. “One advantage of photography is that it’s visual and can transcend language.” – Lisa Kristine
65. “My camera is my passport.” – Steve McCurry
66. “Photography, to me, is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.” – Jacques-Henri Lartigue
67. “The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.” – Susan Meiselas
68. “Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.” – Tony Benn
69. “In photography, there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.” – August Sander
70. “The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.” – Orson Welles
71. “I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.” – Diane Arbus
72. “To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place…” – Eliott Erwitt
73. “Today everything exists to end in a photograph.” – Susan Sontag
74. “Photography is a means by which we learn to see the ordinary.” – David Bailey
75. “Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.” – Bill Brandt
76. “Kodak sells film, but they don’t advertise film; they advertise memories.” – Theodore Levitt
77. “A photograph is like a recipe – the memory is the finished dish.” – Carrie Latet
78. “The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.” — Andy Warhol
79. “Contrast is what makes photography interesting.” – Conrad Hall
80. “The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.” – Steven Pinker
81. “It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.” – Alfred Eisenstaedt
82. “I like to photograph others before they know what their best angles are.” – Ellen Von Unwerth
83. “We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.” – Ralph Hattersley
84. “Photography is an itch that won’t go away. No matter how much you scratch it.” – Dara McGrath
85. “Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.” – Sebastian Smee
86. “Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures” – Gregory Crewdson
87. “I have always been fascinated by the poetic condition of twilight. By its transformative quality. Its power of turning the ordinary into something magical and otherworldly. “ – Gregory Crewdson
88. “Skill in photography is acquired by practice, and not by purchase.” -Percy W. Harris
89. “You photograph with all your ideology.” – Sebastiao Salgado
90. “Your inspiration is better if it comes from many different sources and your sensibilities will transform all those influences and inspiration into your own visual world. It’s like reading the book instead of watching the movie.” – Peter Lindbergh
91. “The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.” -Imogen Cunningham
92. “We see in colour all the time. Black and white is therefore immediately an interpretation of the world, rather than a copy.” – Michael Kenna
93. “The golden rule in the arts, as far as I am concerned, is that all rules are meant to be broken.” -Michael Kenna
94. “To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.” – Edward Weston
95. “If I have any ‘message’ worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no shortcuts in photography.” – Edward Weston
96. “After following the crowd for a while, I’d then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me.” – Elliott Erwitt
97. “To me, photography must suggest, not insist or explain.” – Brassai
98. “To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
99. “A photojournalist makes snap decisions; based on the ability to quickly assess situations and record one’s perceived truth.” – Jack Dykinga
100. “What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” – Karl Lagerfeld
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