There are several inspirational photography quotes by influential photographers to motivate you with your images. Below, we share those photography quotes with you. (part 2)
Image by Robert Mapplethorpe
“The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.” – Robert Mapplethorpe
“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.” – Robert Frank
“I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.” – Galen Rowell
“Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.” – Sebastian Smee
“I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in.” – Steve McCurry
“I think of photography like therapy.” – Harry Gruyaert
“A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.” – Irving Penn
“Photography has nothing to do with cameras.” – Lucas Gentry
Image by Sam Abell
“Essentially what photography is is life lit up.” – Sam Abell
“Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.” – Martin Parr
“You cannot possibly hit the shutter without leaving a piece of you in the image.” – Joe Buissink
“Photography is my passion. Whenever I get time, I click.” – Shaheer Sheikh
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” – Dorothea Lange
“I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, ‘Oh! Will you look at that?’ Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don’t look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.” – Harold Feinstein
“Skill in photography is acquired by practice and not by purchase.” – Percy W. Harris
“One doesn’t stop seeing. One doesn’t stop framing. It doesn’t turn off and on. It’s on all the time.” – Annie Leibovitz
Image by Peter Lindberg
“Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.” – Peter Lindbergh
“When you photograph a face… you photograph the soul behind it.” – Jean-Luc Godard
“Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.” – George Eastman
“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” – Alfred Stieglitz
“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.” – Ernst Haas
“A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.” – Eudora Welty
“Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
“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
Image by Eve Arnold
“If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.” – Eve Arnold
“When a moment in front of me appears to be particularly special, whether it be by beauty or experience, I capture it. I usually find a reason to justify taking that photo – symmetry, or color, or contrast – and it’s my hope that my photography sheds light onto what I see and do on a daily basis.” – Connor Franta
“Whatever situations you’re in, you have to find a way to rock it.” – Mary Marantz
“Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.” – David Alan Harvey
“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.” – Diane Arbus
“Perception isn’t reality, it’s the only reality.” – Amy and Jordan Demos
“You’ve got to push yourself harder. You’ve got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You’ve got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.” – William Albert Allard
“Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it’s good to capture people when they are themselves.” – Patrick Demarchelier
Image by Ansel Adams
“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.” – Ansel Adams
“Fear is the thing that prohibits a lot of photographers from reaching their full potential.” – Collin Pierson
“I love the people I photograph. I mean, they’re my friends. I’ve never met most of them or I don’t know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.” – Bruce Gilden
“When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I’d like to know them. Anyone I know I photographs.” – Annie Leibovitz
“No place is boring if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and a pocket full of unexposed film.” – Robert Adams
“Clients love pictures where they’re laughing versus just smiling. That’s because there’s emotion behind it. Because you’re capturing energy, not just a still image.” – Jen Rozenbaum
“A photograph is memory in the raw.” – Carrie Latet
Image by Aaron Siskind
“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
“I threw myself into this artform because photography had given me a new sense of mission and identity.” – Bob Anderson
“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.” – Robert Frank
“If you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of more interesting stuff.” – Jim Richardson
“Photography is about capturing souls not smiles.” – Dragan Tapshanov
“Spend more time working on posing, expressions, and creating energy between the couple and you – they need to feel the energy that makes them react. Remember, reaction is part of the pose.” – Roberto Valenzuela
“I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.” – Ellen Von Unwerth
“Photography is the story I fail to put into words.” – Destin Sparks
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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