If you love photography, then you're going to love these quotes. They are all by famous photographers, except a couple, but they are all about photography. I didn't want to just post the text so I turned them into something more visually appealing. Anyway, hope you enjoy these them!
“Sometimes I just arrive just when God's ready to have someone click the shutter.” – Ansel Adams
“You don't take a photograph, you make it.” – Ansel Adams
“Twelve significant photographsin any one year is a good crop.” – Ansel Adams
“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.” – Ansel Adams
“Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.” – Edward Steichen
“A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.” – Eudora Welty
“I love photography, and I love the art of photography.” – Helen Mirren
“Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a mediation.” – Henri Cartier Bresson
“The pictures are there, and you just take them.” – Robert Capa
“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.” – Susan Sontag
“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.” – Susan Sontag
“Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.” – Yousuf Karsh
“Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.” – Minor White
“When I photography, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things.” – Wynn Bullock
“Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.” – Eliot Porter
“Photography helps people to see.” – Berenice Abbott
“If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.” – Robert Capa
“I like form and shape and strength in pictures.” – Herb Ritts
“In photography there is reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” – Alfred Stieglitz
“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” – Dorothea Lange
“Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's Life!” – John Sexton
“A photograph is usually looked at but seldom looked into.” – Ansel Adams
The camera is my tool. Through it I give reason to everything around me.” – Andre Kertesz
“Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy – your work becomes a dance with light and weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.” – Annie Leibovitz
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” – Ansel Adams
“I have always photographed loneliness because that is my life” – Bob Richardson
“For me, the subject of the picture is always more important that the picture.” – Diane Arbus
“My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.” – Diane Arbus
“Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… The subject must be something you truly love or truly hate – Dorothea Lange
“To me, photography is like a quest, or a pilgrimage, or a hunt. I love painting, I love music, but photography is what has allowed me to get outside of myself.” – Edouard Boubat
“Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.” – Edward Steichen
“I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.” – Fay Godwin
“Pressing the shutter has remained a moment of joyful recognition, comparable to the delight of a child balancing on tipoe and suddenly, with a small cry of delight, stretching out a hand toward a desired object.” – Inge Morath
“I would like to see everything, look at everything, I want to be the view itself.” – Josef Koudelka
“Take pictures is savoring life intensely every hundredth of a second.” – Mark Riboud
“What I like most about photography is the moment that you can't anticipate; You have to be constantly watching for it, ready to welcome the unexpected.” – Martine Franck
“One of these days I'm going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take. It is going to be a huge hit.” – Rene Burri
” If you take photographs, don't speak, don't write, don't analyse yourself, and don't answer any questions.” – Robert Doisneau
“When people look at my pictures I want them to fee the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.” – Robert Frank
“I see something special and show it to the camera. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.” – Sam Abell
“What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.” – William Klein
“The Earth is art. The photographer is only a witness.” – Yann Arthus Bertrand
“Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.” – Yousuf Karsh
“There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.” – Abraham Lincoln
Hope you enjoyed these photography quotes!
