Photography is more than just an ability or talent; it is a desire that demands continual fulfillment. These inspiring photography quotes will inspire you to explore your passion and enthusiasm for photography, whether you are a novice or a talented photographer. Photography among young people this time is one of the hot carrier choices. Photography is more of an art. We have seen a great revolution in technology and photography beginning from black and white photographs because previous photographers use only easy and sober cameras, but it is completely changed as you can see after the advent of the Drone.
In photography, angles and lenses play a very significant role. In complex situations, an expert photographer still knows the lens can work well. In this essay, we have compiled some inspirational quotes from photography and slogans from a popular photographer. Learn from and be influenced by photographers such as Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Mark Denman, Ted Grant, Annie Leibovitz, among many others, from these popular photography quotes.
Since the birth of photography hundreds of years ago, these photographic quotes have come into being. If they are searching for wedding photography quotes, black and white photography quotes, or even humorous photography quotes, these quotes can inspire photographers of any skill level.
Not only will you be influenced by our curated list of best photography quotations, but it would also motivate you to look at the craft of photography in a whole new way. If you like the quotes, share them with your mates from the photographer to inspire them and let us know which one in the comment section you like best.
Here are our favorite 151 popular photographers’ inspiring photography quotations:
Photography Quotes
# “For me, photography is not looking, it is knowing. If you can’t feel what you are looking at, so when they look at the pictures, you’re never going to convince anyone to see it.” — Don McCullin
# “Photography is exquisitely obsessed with looks, but little is as it seems to be.” — Duane Michals
# “Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.”
– Ansel Adams
# “One advantage of photography is that it’s visual and can transcend language.”
– Lisa Kristine
# “In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.”
– James Wilson
# “I think that’s the strength of photography – to decide the decisive moment, to click at the moment to come up with a picture that never comes back again.”
– Rene Burri
# “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
# “Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.”
– Martin Parr
# “Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.”
– Edward Steichen
# “I fell in love with the process of taking photos and discovering stuff by walking around. To me, it sounds like a success of a sort. A document of the success is the picture.” — Alec Soth
# “Andy Warhol The great thing about an image is that it never changes, except though the individuals in it do.” — Andy Warhol
# “One of the most important things that sculpture and photography share is the way light reaches objects, I guess.” — Rashid Johnson
# “The camera is an excuse for being anywhere you don’t belong, otherwise. It provides me with both a connection point and a divergence point.” — Susan Meiselas
# “The picture that you have taken with your camera is the image that you want to make with reality.” — Scott Lorenzo
# “There will be moments when, without a microphone, you will be in the area. And, you’re going to see the most glorious sunset or the most stunning sight you’ve ever seen. Don’t be bitter because that’s not something you can record. Sit back, have a beer, and enjoy yourself for what it is!” — DeGraff
# “Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.”
– Arnold Newman
# “Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.”
– Garry Winogrand
# “Photography takes a moment out of time, transforming life by keeping it still.” — Dorothea Lange
# “It’s one thing to make an image of what a person looks like, to make a portrait of who they are is another thing.” — Paul Caponigro
# “I will rely on images as words become vague. I would be content with silence as pictures become insufficient.” — Ansel Adams
Famous photography quotes
# “Only photography has been able to separate human life into a collection of events, each of which has the meaning of full creation.” — Eadweard Muybridge
# “In all aspects elegance can be seen, it is what distinguishes the snapshot from the picture that sees and composes the beauty.” — Unknown
# “The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.”
– Stephen Shore
# “Photographs are just light and time.”
– Aza Holmes
# “The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share.”
– Rashid Johnson
# “Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.”
– Eadweard Muybridge
# “What do we feel when we look at a good photograph? We just want to be there, right at the exact moment that photo was taken!”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan
# “Photographers don’t take pictures. They create images.”
– Mark Denman
# “It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.”
– Alfred Eisenstaedt
# “Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson
# “Photography, to me, is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.”
– Jacques-Henri Lartigue
# “The biggest cliche in photography is sunrise and sunset.”
– Catherine Opie
# “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
Photographer quotes about pictures
# “Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”
– Dorothea Lange
# “One of the things you see in my pictures is that I was not scared of falling in love with these individuals.” — Annie Leibovitz
# “You are not close enough if your pictures are not good enough.” — Robert Capa
# “The camera is a medium that shows people how to see without a camera.” — Dorothea Lange
# “Being a professional photographer needs a great deal of creativity. To become a painter, you need less creativity, so you can create things. But all is so natural in photography; before you learn to see the exceptional, it takes a lot of searching.” — David Bailey
# “Photography is a way for us to see, touch, to love. What you’ve captured in the movie is captured forever… It remembers little things, even after you’ve lost all of them.” — Aaron Siskind
# “When a moment in front of me appears to be particularly special, whether it be by beauty or experience, I capture it. I usually find a reason to justify taking that photo – symmetry, or color or contrast – and I hope that my photography sheds light onto what I see and do daily.”- Connor Franta
# “The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.”
– Steven Pinker
# “My interest in photography is not to capture an image I see or even have in my mind, but to explore the potential of moments I can only begin to imagine.”
– Lois Greenfield
# “Contrast is what makes photography interesting.”
– Conrad Hall
# “For me, the camera is a sketchbook, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson
# “The eye should learn to listen before it looks.”
– Robert Frank
# “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
# “A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.”
– Ansel Adams
# “A good photograph is knowing where to stand.”
– Ansel Adams
# “His camera will make you forget that you are there. It’s not that you’re hiding, so you forget, you’re just looking a lot like that.” — Annie Leibovitz
# “A portrait is not made on one side of the frame, but on either side.” — Edward Steichen
# “Photography is an instant response, and drawing is meditation.” — Unknown
# “To understand what our lives mean to us, we make photographs.” — Ralph Hattersley
# “The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”
– Susan Sontag
# “That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject; you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.”
– Dorothea Lange
# “If you can see it, you can shoot it.”
– Ted Grant
# “We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.”
– Ralph Hattersley
Black and white photography quotes about camera
# “In photography, there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”
– Alfred Stieglitz
# “Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That’s the thing about painting, photography, cinema.”
– David Lynch
# “It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography, everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.”
– David Bailey
# “The way that light hits objects in life, three-dimensional objects before you photograph them is really the story of photography.”
– Rashid Johnson
# “Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.” – Joe McNally
# “The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody’s hand.”
– Sally Mann
# “Taking photos is like tiptoeing late at night into the kitchen and stealing cookies from Oreo.” — Diane Arbus
# “Photography is more than just a means for the exchange of ideas in fact. It is the art of creativity.” — Ansel Adams
# “You do not do this by not being lost yourself, the frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject.” — Dorothea Lange
# “Before making an image, checking the laws of composition is a bit like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a stroll.” — Edward Weston
# “Photography makes it possible for people to see.” — Berenice Abbott
# “The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feedback loop, which actively shapes the content we are fed.”
– Damian Loeb
# “In terms of digital photography, I continue to print and use film for the most part. I still shoot with film, / film specifically, and I love it. I love it because I know what it does, how it really responds to light.”
– Carrie Mae Weems
# “What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
– Karl Lagerfeld
# “When words become unclear, I shall focus on photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
– Ansel Adams
# “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
# “The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
– Dorothea Lange
# “A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.”
– Eudora Welty
# “Today, everything exists to end in a photograph.”
– Susan Sontag
# “A photograph is a moral decision taken in one-eighth of a second.”
– Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet
# “The camera has always been a guide, and it’s allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn’t even notice.”
– Don Chadwick
# “To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson
# “What can be proved by a photograph can never be by a word.”
– T.A
# “Photography is an itch that won’t go away. No matter how much you scratch it.”
– Dara McGrath
Photograph caption quotes about photography
# “The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!”
– Ansel Adams
# “When you photograph a face…you photograph the soul behind it.”
– Jean-Luc Godard
# “If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera.”
– Lewis Hine
# “Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
– Walker Evans
# “Sharpness is a bourgeois concept.”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson
# “The photograph must contain one thing, the humanity of the moment.” — Robert Frank
# “For someone who really knows, your photography is a record of your life.” — Paul Strand
# “The depth of sensation, not the depth of field, is perfect photography.” — Peter Adams
# “Many things in life are moments of fun and an embarrassing lifetime; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a pleasurable lifetime.” — Tony Benn
# “Photography is a way for us to see, touch, to love. What you’ve captured in the movie is captured forever… It remembers little things, even after you’ve lost all of them.” — Aaron Siskind
# “The cliché comes not in what you shoot but in how you shoot it.”
– David duChemin, Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision
# “Regarding the creative: never assume you’re the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you’re masterful.”
– Don Roff
Wedding photography quotes about photography
# “My love of photography is melded with the ability to capture what I want to remember at the moment I want to never forget.”
– Devin Dygert
# “It’s amazing how photography can capture just a split second of something exquisite.”
– Kiera Cass, The Prince
# “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
# “No matter how sophisticated the camera, the photographer is still the one that makes it.”
– Doug Bartlow
# “God creates the beauty. My camera and I are a witness.”
– Mark Denman
# “In my view, you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.”
– Émile Zola
# “My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse, and entertain.”
– Helmut Newton
# “My pictures are about making people realize we’ve got to protect those who can’t speak for themselves.”
– Michael “Nick” Nichols
# “Taking a picture is like giving a piece of your soul away. You allow other people to see the world through your eyes.”
– Katja Michael
# “Photography is a way for us to see, touch, to love. What you’ve captured in the movie is captured forever… It remembers little things, even after you’ve lost all of them.” — Aaron Siskind
# “Whether a photographer loves and is compassionate for the persons in front of the lens, a lot is granted. It is the photographer who is the instrument, not the camera.” — Eve Arnold
# “When you photograph people of color, you take pictures of their dresses. You photograph their hearts as you photograph people in black and white!” — Ted Grant
# “A tear has an ocean in it. A photographer is mindful of the little moments that expose larger truths in the life of a person.” — Unknown
# “Ansel Adams, You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” — Ansel Adams
# “It wouldn’t be enough to own a camera. There’s a camera everyone owns. You have to consider, respect and channel the strength you possess to be a photographer!” — Mark Denman
# “When the world asks, “what was it like?” Only the photographer can say, “See!”
– Mark Denman
# “The photographer does the world a great disservice when he leaves his camera at home.”
– Mark Denman
# “When I make a photograph, I feel that I hold a piece of the universe in my hands.”
– Paul Chaplin
# “When a photo of a person looks deep into your spirit and tells you a thousand stories….. Stories from your past even before you existed, then the photo is way above any description.”
– Sameh Elsayed
# “Photography is the story I fail to put into words.”
– Destin Sparks
# “There is the satisfaction of being able to look at the image without flinching. There is the pleasure of flinching.”
– Sontag, Susan
# “My best photo will be the last one that I want to be taken.”
– Biju Karakkonam
# “Do not take pictures to please the public; the photo should be spontaneous and free.”
– Betty Poluk
# “Some days, you just get lucky… Other days you wait patiently for luck to happen.”
– Destin Sparks
# “I take the same picture twice. First, with my heart, then the camera.”
– Biju Karakkonam
# “Whosoever possesses a camera should never know boredom.”
– Wayne Gerard Trotman
# “Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.”
– Ansel Adams
# “The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world.”
– Paul Strand
# “Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.”
– Paul Strand
# “It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.”
– Paul Strand
# “I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.”
– Galen Rowell
# “The two most engaging powers of a photograph are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.”
– William Thackeray
# “I will rely on images as words become vague. I would be content with silence as photographs become insufficient.” — Ansel Adams
# “We are actually putting something into being that did not exist before, by creating.” — Montana Dennis
# “Photography takes a moment out of time, transforming life by keeping it still.” — Dorothea Lange
# “Before it looks, the mind can learn to listen.” — Robert Frank
# “I will rely on images as words become vague. I would be content with silence as photography become insufficient.” — Ansel Adams
# “With the introduction of a camera in everyone’s lap, the very essence of photography has changed.” — Sally Mann
Which are your favorite quotes on photography? Which one of the famous photographers have inspired you with their photo quotes?
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