20+ Most Famous & Inspirational Photography Quotes
20+ Most Famous & Inspirational Photography Quotes – It’s no surprise that photography quotes are one of the most popular things to share on social media, usually by other photographers, of course.
Reading a line encompassing our love for photography and art is powerful and often reminds us of the importance of documenting moments with our cameras.
Here is a selection of the most inspirational photography quotes created over the past 100 years mainly by great and famous photographers.
1.“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson
2.“Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.”
– Ansel Adams
3.“Photography is the story I fail to put into words.”
– Destin Sparks
4.“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
– Ansel Adams
5.“When I photograph I make love.”
– Alfred Stieglitz
6.“The negative is the equivalent of the composer’s score and the print the performance.”
– Ansel Adams
7.“There is one thing the photo must contain – the humanity of the moment.”
– Robert Frank
8.“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
9.“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
10.“Photography is the art of making memories tangible.”
– Destin Sparks
11.“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
12.“A good snapshot keeps a moment that s gone from running away.”
– Eudora Welty
13.“Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.”
– Duane Michals
14.“ 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
15.“It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart, and head.”
-Henri Cartier-Bresson
16.A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.”
– Edward Steichen
17.“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
18.“Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.”
– Diane Arbus
19.“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.”
– Annie Leibovitz
20.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
