Memorable Photography Quotes

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"A photograph is usually looked at—not looked into."
Ansel Adams
"Photography is not about the photographer, but about the subject."
David P. W. Thomas
"It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see."
Henry David Thoreau
"A camera is a save button for the mind's eye."
Roger Kingston
"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
"Photography is a means of recording and interpreting the world around us."
Lucy McRae
"You can take a photo, but it’s the emotion behind it that makes it a memory."
Unknown
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"Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop."
Anonymous
"The camera doesn’t make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to see."
Ernst Haas
"The best photographs are the ones that are in your heart."
Rena Effendi
"Taking a photograph is like a stagecoach. There's a mule attached, pulling you toward something that you can’t put down."
Robert Adams
"A photograph is the pause button of life."
Tyler Shields
"To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place."
Elliott Erwitt
"It’s not the size of the camera; it’s the size of the heart."
capacity
"Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still."
Dorothea Lange
"You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the experiences you have ever had."
Ansel Adams
"Capture the moment, because everything can change in the blink of an eye."
Unknown
"Photographers do not see things as they are, they see things as they wish them to be."
Unknown
"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
"There’s a great sense of accomplishment in creating something that will last longer than you."
Unknown
"I think good dreaming is what leads to good photographs."
Wayne Miller
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"You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."
Jon Kabat-Zinn
"Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work."
William Albert Allard
"You don't take a photograph, you make it."
Anonymous
"Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is."
Anonymous
"The eye should learn to listen before it looks."
Robert Frank
"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know."
Diane Arbus
"The photograph itself doesn’t interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality."
Henri Cartier-Bresson
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
Henry Ward Beecher
"If your photos aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough."
Robert Capa
"I think good photography is often about depth of feeling."
Eliot Porter
"When people ask me what equipment I use – I tell them my eyes."
Anonymous
"Photography is the art of making memories tangible."
Destin Sparks
"The most important part of the camera is the twelve inches behind it."
Anonymous
"Photography helps people to see."
Berenice Abbott
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"A photograph is like a recipe; you need to experiment to find the flavor that works for you."
Unknown
"Photography is the beauty of life captured."
Tina Modotti
"What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are time and light."
John Szarkowski
"Photographing 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
"A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away."
Eudora Welty
"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs."
Ansel Adams
"Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real."
Ansel Adams
"The camera is not a mere machine; it is a mirror that reflects our souls."
Berenice Abbott
"The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality."
Scott Lorenzo
"Each photograph is a story just waiting to unfold."
Unknown
"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know."
Diane Arbus
"To photograph is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge to capture a fleeting reality."
Henri Cartier-Bresson
"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst."
Henri Cartier-Bresson
"Photography is a love affair with life."
Burk Uzzle
"The best camera is the one you have with you."
Chase Jarvis
"Capturing memories is the most meaningful thing a photograph can do."
Unknown
"Every frame has its own story."
Gerry Images
"Photography is the story I fail to put into words."
Destin Sparks
"A picture is worth a thousand words."
Fred R. Barnard
"Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world."
Bruno Barbey
"You don’t take a photograph, you make it."
Ansel Adams
"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera."
Dorothea Lange
"In photography, there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality."
Alfred Stieglitz
"The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do."
Andy Warhol
"To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality."
Henri Cartier-Bresson
"There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer."
Ansel Adams
"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever."
Aaron Siskind
"A good photograph is knowing where to stand."
Ansel Adams
"The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things in words."
Elliott Erwitt
"Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future."
Sally Mann
"Every picture tells a story."
Unknown
"Photography is like a moment frozen in time."
Unknown
"A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you."
Brassai
"Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second."
Marc Riboud
"What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time."
John Szarkowski
"There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment."
Robert Frank
"I think that the best pictures are the ones that are in your heart."
Maggie Taylor
"The camera can be a powerful instrument of communication and awareness."
Thorne Anderson
"We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone."
Katie Thurmes
"Photography is not about the photographer; it’s about the moment."
Rineke Dijkstra
"It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter."
Alfred Eisenstaedt
"You can take a photo, but it’s only really a photograph if it captures a moment."
Jason Walker
"The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself."
Wallace Stevens
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