Delve into the profound wisdom and artistic insight of the photographic world with ’50 Inspiring Photography Quotes From Masters Of Photography.’ This curated collection encapsulates the essence of renowned photographers who have shaped the art form.
From Ansel Adams to Annie Leibovitz, each quote resonates with the passion, philosophy, and unique vision that defines their approach to capturing moments frozen in time. These words serve as windows into the minds of photographic legends, revealing the depth of emotion, storytelling, and technical mastery that fuels their craft.
Whether extolling the transformative power of a photograph or offering sage advice on the art of seeing, these quotes inspire and remind us of the enduring magic found within the frame.
#1. “Photography is the story I fail to put into words.” – Destin Sparks
#2.”You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” – Ansel Adams
#3. “The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.” – Andy Warhol
#4. “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
#5. “Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.” – Bruno Barbey
#6. “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
#7. “The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” – Dorothea Lange
#8. “In photography, there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” – Alfred Stieglitz
#9. “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.” – Diane Arbus
#10. “Photography is the only spontaneous art form that has survived technological advances.” – Louis Daguerre
#11. “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
#12. “There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.” – Robert Frank
#13. “What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” – Karl Lagerfeld
#14. “The eye should learn to listen before it looks.” – Robert Frank
#15. “Photography is a love affair with life.” – Burk Uzzle
#16. “Skill in photography is acquired by practice and not by purchase.” – Percy W. Harris
#17. “Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
#18. “It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.” – Alfred Eisenstaedt
#19. “The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.” – Elliott Erwitt
#20. “In photography, there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” – Alfred Stieglitz
#21. “The best camera is the one that’s with you.” – Chase Jarvis
#22. “Photography is about capturing souls, not smiles.” – Dragan Tapshanov
#23. “A photograph is a memory in the raw.” – Carrie Latet
#24. “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
#25. “Photography is the only language that can be understood and spoken anywhere in the world.” – Bruno Barbey
#26. “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
#27. “What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” – Karl Lagerfeld
#28. “You just have to live and life will give you pictures.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
#29. “A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second. Or it isn’t.” – Salman Rushdie
#30. “A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart, leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it.” – Irving Penn
#31. “Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
#32. “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
#33. “Photography helps people to see.” – Berenice Abbott
#34. “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
#35. “Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” – Dorothea Lange
#36. “Every photograph is a portrait – the portrait of someone, of some condition, some circumstance.” – Garry Winogrand
#37. “A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.” – Brigitte Bardot
#38. “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
#39. “I don’t trust words. I trust pictures.” – Gilles Peress
#40. “Photography is a love affair with life.” – Burk Uzzle
#41. “The best pictures are the ones that are never taken.” – Unknown
#42. “The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.” – Steven Pinker
#43. “The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.” – Susan Sontag
#44. “Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation, and execution.” – Ansel Adams
#45. “Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” – Alfred Stieglitz
#46. “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
#47. “The more I photograph, the more I realize what I haven’t photographed.” – David duChemin
#48. “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
#49. “A photograph is the pause button of life.” – Ty Holland
#50. “There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.” – Ansel Adams