There are several inspirational photography quotes by influential photographers to motivate you with your images. Below, we share those photography quotes with you.
Image by Bill Brandt
“Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.” – Bill Brandt
“The pictures are there, and you just take them.” – Robert Capa
“The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?” – Edward Weston
“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
“Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.” – Martin Parr
“A photograph is like a recipe memory the finished dish.” – Carrie Latet
“In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.” – August Sander
“The two most engaging powers of a photograph are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.” – William Thackeray
Image by Anne Geddes
“The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.” – Anne Geddes
“For me, documentary photography has always come with great responsibility. Not just to tell the story honestly and with empathy, but also to make sure the right people hear it. When you photograph somebody who is in pain or discomfort, they trust you to make sure the images will act as their advocate.” – Giles Duley
“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.” – Joan Miro
“While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.” – Dorothea Lange
“Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.” – Joe McNally
“All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.” – Richard Avedon
“When people ask me what equipment I use – I tell them my eyes.” – Anonymous
“I’ve always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.” – James Balog
Image by Diane Arbus
“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.” – Diane Arbus
“Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.” – Jacques-Henri Lartigue
“I think good dreaming is what leads to good photographs.” – Wayne Miller
“To me, the magic of photography, per se, is that you can capture an instant of a second that couldn’t exist before and couldn’t exist after. It’s almost like a cowboy that draws his gun. You draw a second before or after, you miss and you’re dead – not them. To me, photography’s always like that.” – Mario Testin
“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
“Results are uncertain even among the more experienced photographers.” – Matthew Brady
“In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.” – James Wilson
“If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera.” – Lewis Hine
Image by Sally Mann
“Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future.” – Sally Mann
“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.” – Susan Sontag
“Once photography enters your bloodstream, it is like a disease.” – Anonymous
“A camera is a SAVE button for the mind’s eye.” – Roger Kingston
“Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.” – Ben Shahn
“Kodak sells film, but they don’t advertise film; they advertise memories.” – Theodore Levitt
“When I photograph, what I’m really doing is seeking answers to things.” – Wynn Bullock
“We don’t learn from our good images; we learn from the ones that can be improved on.” – Jen Rozenbaum
Image by Linda McCartney
“If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.” – Linda McCartney
“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.” – Ansel Adams
“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
“I didn’t choose photography, photography chose me.” – Gerardo Suter
“Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.” – Imogen Cunningham
“There’s a time when people say your work is revolutionary, but you have to keep being revolutionary. I can’t keep shooting pop stars all my life. You have to keep changing, keep pushing yourself, looking for the new, the unusual.” – Rankin
“Photography is not about cameras, gadgets and gizmos. Photography is about photographers. A camera didn’t make a great picture any more than a typewriter wrote a great novel.” – Peter Adams
“The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can’t be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.” – Eliot Porter
Image by Elliott Erwitt
“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.” – Elliott Erwitt
“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
“The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.” – Orson Welles
“Contrast is what makes photography interesting.” – Conrad Hall
“It’s about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It’s simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what’s around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.” – Elliott Erwitt
“Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.” – Paul Strand
“Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.” – Andy Goldsworthy
“We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.” – Ralph Hattersley
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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