There are several inspirational photography quotes by influential photographers to motivate you with your images. Below, we share those photography quotes with you.
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Image by 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
“The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.” – Steven Pinker
“Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.” – W. Eugene Smith
“Only photograph what you love.” – Tim Walker
“What makes a photograph a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.” – John Berger
“Photography is a love affair with life.” – Burk Uzzle
“My photography is the result of being there at the right moment.” – Rene Burri
“The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.” – Scott Lorenzo
Image by Susan Meiselas
“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
“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
“There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.” – Robert Heinecken
“Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.” – Berenice Abbott
“Photography is truth.” – Jean-Luc Godard
“Photography is the beauty of life captured.” – Tara Chisolm
“Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past.” – David DuChemin
“I am not interested in shooting new things – I am interested to see things new.” – Ernst Haas
Image by Elliott Erwitt
“The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.” – Elliott Erwitt
“I feel more like a creative artist using photography because there’s – the digital work is so interesting now. It’s come to that. I have had many different stages of photography – there are many different ways to take photos. But I feel now I’m in that stage of my life where I use the camera, you know, in that way.” – Annie Leibovitz
“Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.” – Yousuf Karsh
“Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.” – Matt Hardy
“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” – Ansel Adams
“I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.” – Diane Arbus
Image by Anne Geddes
“I think that emotional content is an image’s most important element, regardless of the photographic technique. Much of the work I see these days lacks the emotional impact to draw a reaction from viewers, or remain in their hearts.” – Anne Geddes
“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.” – Robert Frank
“Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.” – Yousuf Karsh
“The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.” – Gordon Parks
Image by Henri Cartier-Bresson
“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
“My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.” – Steve McCurry
“I walk, I look, I see, I stop, I photograph.” – Leon Levinstein
“Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.” – Steven Pinker
Image by Edward Weston
“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
“Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.” – Paul Strand
“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[ninja-inline id=19506]
“Why do we use flash at all? Because photography is not the same as eyesight. We can see in low-light situations where cameras, dependent upon a physical process to record visual information, are half blind.” – David Hewson
Image by Edward Steichen
“A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.” – Edward Steichen
Reading inspirational quotes about photography from top photographers can help you stay passionate and think about the next time you will need to capture a moment. It can also help you stay determined to work on your skills and be the best photographer you can be. Sometimes, a lovely quote on pictures or a black and white image quotation can be just the thing needed to help you focus on the next challenge.
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