{"id":48068,"date":"2022-08-16T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tonydoovisuals.com\/?p=48068"},"modified":"2022-08-16T12:16:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T12:16:05","slug":"99-photography-quotes-to-inspire-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tonydoovisualshq.com\/?p=48068","title":{"rendered":"99 Photography Quotes To Inspire You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Looking for something moving to say in your next marketing video? We\u2019ve put together a collection of quotes from some of the greatest photographers and artists from around the world to help spark some ideas. Take a look, and then try adding your favorite to a block or two of your next video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ctfassets.net\/00i767ygo3tc\/2RMxNpCoXDVQ1wORpM1ZIA\/ac039747e6830e57cd9c64d1a947134a\/Ansel.gif\" alt=\"14 Photography Quotes: Ansel Adams\" title=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201cYou don\u2019t take a photograph, you make it.\u201d<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014Ansel Adams<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201cIt is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.\u201d<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014Alfred Eisenstaedt<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"2\"><li>\u201cA single photograph contains different images.\u201d<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014Daido Moriyama<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ctfassets.net\/00i767ygo3tc\/6SXIOrocFqP8N7DIZZZf9l\/3b20f7342e1d59fc7ded7dbe27190833\/Gordon.gif\" alt=\"14 Photography Quotes: Gordon Parks\" title=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"4\"><li>\u201cThe subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.\u201d<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014Gordon Parks<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"5\"><li>\u201cDon\u2019t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.\u201d<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014David Alan Harvey<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"4\"><li>\u201cThe best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.\u201d<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014Andy Warhol<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"5\"><li>\u201cMost of my photos are grounded in people. I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a person\u2019s face.\u201d<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014Steve McCurry<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ctfassets.net\/00i767ygo3tc\/1l8mhJ2N8PwBgZuQycqOFq\/e8fe026952a2e72b4c9a2313c061d57d\/Annie.gif\" alt=\"14 Photography Quotes: Annie Leibovitz\" title=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"8\"><li>\u201cI fight to take a good photograph every single time.\u201d<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014Annie Leibovitz<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"9\"><li>\u201cWhat I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that\u2019s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.\u201d<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014Karl Lagerfeld<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"10\"><li>\u201cIn the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world.\u201d<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014Graciela Iturbide<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ctfassets.net\/00i767ygo3tc\/8kqMiQatwKbwY4moszVqF\/4ad4286210b33f7c75ece1e171794329\/Dorothea.gif\" alt=\"14 Photography Quotes: Dorothea Lange\" title=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"11\"><li>\u201cPhotography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.\u201d<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014Dorothea Lange<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"12\"><li>\u201cYou 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.\u201d<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014Joan Miro<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"13\"><li>\u201cThe heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.\u201d<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014Yousuf Karsh<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ctfassets.net\/00i767ygo3tc\/7ffKEnXJCdH2tuihvvBAlX\/80c3c4ea3fa328e008a6daaf7d771dd2\/Rai.gif\" alt=\"14 Photography Quotes: Raghu Rai\" title=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"11\"><li>\u201cPhotography, at its best, goes far beyond the style of an individual; like the soul it need not always be explained.\u201d<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014Raghu Rai<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Inspirational Photography Quotes in 2022<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201cIf your photos aren\u2019t good enough, then you\u2019re not close enough.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Robert Capa<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cWhen words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Ansel Adams<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cIn photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Alfred Stieglitz<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cThere is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Robert Frank<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cTaking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Anonymous<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cPhotography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever\u2026 It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Aaron Siskind<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cWhen I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Alfred Eisenstaedt<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cWe are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.\u201d<\/li><li>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Ralph Hattersley<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cA thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.\u201d<\/li><li>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Annie Leibovitz<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cI\u2019m not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I\u2019m not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren\u2019t cooks.\u201d<\/li><li>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Henri Cartier-Bresson<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cYou don\u2019t take a photograph. You ask quietly to borrow it.\u201d<\/li><li>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Unknown<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cPhotography for me is not looking, it\u2019s feeling. If you can\u2019t feel what you\u2019re looking at, then you\u2019re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.\u201d<\/li><li>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Don McCullin<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cIf it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.\u201d<\/li><li>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Ansel Adams<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cA portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.\u201d<\/li><li>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Edward Steichen<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201cTo me, photography is an art of observation. It\u2019s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place\u2026 I\u2019ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Elliott Erwitt<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cThe picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Scott Lorenzo<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cIf the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it\u2019s already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Eve Arnold<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cA tear contains an ocean. A photographer is aware of the tiny moments in a persons life that reveal greater truths.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Anonymous<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cThe camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Dorothea Lange<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cEssentially what photography is is life lit up.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Sam Abell<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201c\u2026we are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most valuable attribute.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Philip Jones Griffiths<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cI don\u2019t trust words. I trust pictures.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Gilles Peress<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cIt is my intention to present \u2013 through the medium of photography \u2013 intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Ansel Adams<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cI really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn\u2019t photograph them.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Diane Arbus<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cIt\u2019s about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It\u2019s simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what\u2019s around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Elliott Erwitt<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cPhotographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Sally Mann<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote3-320x181.jpg 320w\" src=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote3.jpg\" alt=\"An illustration with a quote by photographer Sally Mann\"><\/li><li>\u201cTaking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Marc Riboud<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cIt\u2019s more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Sebastiao Salgado<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cOnce you learn to care, you can record images with your mind or on film. There is no difference between the two.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Anonymous<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cPhotograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Ambrose Bierce<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cEvery artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Gregory Crewdson<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cPhotography is truth.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Jean-Luc Godard<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cPhotographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Garry Winogrand<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cPhotography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Berenice Abbott<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cThe pictures are there, and you just take them.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Robert Capa<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cPhotography has nothing to do with cameras.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Lucas Gentry<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote4.jpg 600w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote4-320x199.jpg 320w\" src=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote4.jpg\" alt=\"An illustration with a quote by photographer Lucas Gentry\"><\/li><li>\u201cThe camera makes you forget you\u2019re there. It\u2019s not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Annie Leibovitz<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cIf you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Linda McCartney<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cThere are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Ansel Adams<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cThe more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Robert Mapplethorpe<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cI am not interested in shooting new things \u2013 I am interested to see things new.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Ernst Haas<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cPhotography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Jacques-Henri Lartigue<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cPhotography is the story I fail to put into words.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.destinsparks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Destin Sparks<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cA photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Diane Arbus<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cA good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Eudora Welty<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cSharpness is a bourgeois concept.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Henri Cartier-Bresson<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cIf you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you\u2019re not out there, you\u2019ll only hear about it.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Jay Maisel<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cIt is an illusion that photos are made with the camera\u2026 they are made with the eye, heart and head.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Henri Cartier-Bresson<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cThe whole point of taking pictures is so that you don\u2019t have to explain things with words.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Elliott Erwitt<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cIt\u2019s not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Sebastiao Salgado<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cBe yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn\u2019t look like somebody else\u2019s work.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>William Klein<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cTo know ahead of time what you\u2019re looking for means you\u2019re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Dorothea Lange<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cOne doesn\u2019t stop seeing. One doesn\u2019t stop framing. It doesn\u2019t turn off and turn on. It\u2019s on all the time.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Annie Leibovitz<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cPhotography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Dorothea Lange<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote5.jpg 600w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote5-320x234.jpg 320w\" src=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote5.jpg\" alt=\"An illustration with a quote by photographer Dorothea Lange\"><\/li><li>\u201cWhat I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that\u2019s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Karl Lagerfeld<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cNo place is boring, if you\u2019ve had a good night\u2019s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Robert Adams<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cA 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.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Irving Penn<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cThere is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Ernst Haas<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cTo consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Edward Weston<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cWherever there is light, one can photograph.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Alfred Stieglitz<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cSince I\u2019m inarticulate, I express myself with images.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Helen Levitt<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cBeauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Matt Hardy<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cPhotography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Elliott Erwitt<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cYou don\u2019t take a photograph, you make it.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Ansel Adams<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cWith photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society\u2019s natural prejudice and giving this a twist.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Martin Parr<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cWhen people ask me what equipment I use \u2013 I tell them my eyes.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Anonymous<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cPhotography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Martin Parr<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cI wish that all of nature\u2019s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Annie Leibovitz<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cI never have taken a picture I\u2019ve intended. They\u2019re always better or worse.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Diane Arbus<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cAll photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Richard Avedon<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cToday everything exists to end in a photograph.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Susan Sontag<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cI suspect it is for one\u2019s self-interest that one looks at one\u2019s surroundings and one\u2019s self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Lee Friedlander<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cThe eye should learn to listen before it looks.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Robert Frank<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cPhotography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Garry Winogrand<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cYou can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Joan Miro<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote7.jpg 600w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote7-320x203.jpg 320w\" src=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote7.jpg\" alt=\"An illustration with a quote by photographer Joan Miro\"><\/li><li>\u201cLight 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.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>George Eastman<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cI think good dreaming is what leads to good photographs.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Wayne Miller<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cPhotography is a medium in which if you don\u2019t do it then, very often you don\u2019t do it at all, because it doesn\u2019t happen twice.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Paul Strand<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cThe photograph itself doesn\u2019t interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Henri Cartier-Bresson<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cI love the people I photograph. I mean, they\u2019re my friends. I\u2019ve never met most of them or I don\u2019t know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Bruce Gilden<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cIf you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of more interesting stuff.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Jim Richardson<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cTo photograph is to hold one\u2019s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It\u2019s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Henri Cartier-Bresson<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cOne should really use the camera as though tomorrow you\u2019d be stricken blind.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Dorothea Lange<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cPhotography helps people to see.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Berenice Abbott<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cTaking pictures is savoring life intensely every hundredth of a second.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Marc Riboud<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cWhen I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I\u2019d like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Annie Leibovitz<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cA landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Charlie Waite<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cMy life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Steve McCurry<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cThere\u2019s a time when people say your work is revolutionary, but you have to keep being revolutionary. I can\u2019t keep shooting pop stars all my life. You have to keep changing, keep pushing yourself, looking for the new, the unusual.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Rankin<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cOf course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask \u2018how\u2019, while others of a more curious nature will ask \u2018why\u2019. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Man Ray<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cLook and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Yousuf Karsh<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cDon\u2019t pack up your camera until you\u2019ve left the location.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Joe McNally<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cThe camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Edward Weston<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cThe best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Anne Geddes<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cPhotography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>W. Eugene Smith<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cIf 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.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Eve Arnold<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cThe camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don\u2019t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Susan Meiselas<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cMost things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Tony Benn<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cYour first 10,000 photographs are your worst.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Henri Cartier-Bresson<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote8.jpg 600w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote8-320x237.jpg 320w\" src=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote8.jpg\" alt=\"An illustration with a quote by photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson\"><\/li><li>\u201cPhotography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Ansel Adams<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cIt is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Alfred Eisenstaedt<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cI like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Ellen Von Unwerth<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cSeeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Andre Kertesz<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cThe best camera is the one that\u2019s with you.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Chase Jarvis<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cWhen you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Ted Grant<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cGreat photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Peter Adams<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cLife is like a camera. Just focus on what\u2019s important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things don\u2019t work out, just take another shot.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Unknown<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cOnly photograph what you love.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Tim Walker<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cTwelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Ansel Adams<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cPhotographers stop photographing subjects too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Dorothea Lange<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cA good photograph is knowing where to stand.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Ansel Adams<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cIf I could tell the story in words, I wouldn\u2019t need to lug around a camera.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Lewis Hine<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201cIn photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>August Sander<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cPhotography is a love affair with life.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Burk Uzzle<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cTo me, photography is the simultaneous recognition in a fraction of a second of the significance of an event.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Henri Cartier-Bresson<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cThe painter constructs, the photographer discloses.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Susan Sontag<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cWhen I photograph, what I\u2019m really doing is seeking answers to things.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Wynn Bullock<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cCharacter, like a photograph, develops in darkness.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Yousuf Karsh<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cIt\u2019s weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don\u2019t even amount to a couple of hours.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>James Lalropui Keivom<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cIf I have any \u2018message\u2019 worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no shortcuts in photography.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Edward Weston<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cA camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Dorothea Lange<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cMy job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Helmut Newton<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cI think that emotional content is an image\u2019s 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.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Anne Geddes<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cThe camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Orson Welles<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cOnce photography enters your bloodstream, it is like a disease.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Anonymous<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cThe negative is the equivalent of the composer\u2019s score and the print the performance.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Ansel Adams<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cWhich of my photographs is my favorite? The one I\u2019m going to take tomorrow.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Imogen Cunningham<\/strong><\/li><li>\u201cThere is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.\u201d<br>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Henri Cartier-Bresson<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">99 Most Inspirational Photography Quotes in 2022 &#8211; Tonydoo Visuals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s no wonder that photography quotes are one of the most popular things to share on social media, usually by other photographers, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reading one line that encapsulates our love for photography and art is powerful and often reminds us of the importance of documenting moments with our cameras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s a selection of the most inspirational photography quotes primarily made by great and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/shotkit.com\/famous-photographers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">famous photographers<\/a>&nbsp;over the past 100 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No matter whether you\u2019re an amateur learning more about photography or you\u2019re looking for the best picture caption, our favorite list of 96 iconic quotes about photography will definitely inspire you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>\u201cYour first 10,000 photographs are your worst.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013&nbsp;<strong>Henri Cartier-Bresson<\/strong><\/li><li><em>\u201cPhotography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013&nbsp;<strong>Ansel Adams<\/strong><\/li><li><em>\u201cPhotography is the story I fail to put into words.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013&nbsp;<strong>Destin Sparks<\/strong><\/li><li><em>\u201cWhen words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013&nbsp;<strong>Ansel Adams<\/strong><\/li><li><em>\u201cWhen I photograph I make love.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013&nbsp;<strong>Alfred Stieglitz<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-ajggd.nitrocdn.com\/kMoOFpDlsOVtlYJLrnSRNCQXaUFHZPTY\/assets\/static\/optimized\/rev-2868028\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Best_Photography_Quotes_Shotkit_007.jpg\" alt=\"Photography quotes for Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-18109\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-ajggd.nitrocdn.com\/kMoOFpDlsOVtlYJLrnSRNCQXaUFHZPTY\/assets\/static\/optimized\/rev-2868028\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Best_Photography_Quotes_Shotkit_018.jpg\" alt=\"Photography quotes for Facebook\" class=\"wp-image-18120\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>\u201cThe negative is the equivalent of the composer\u2019s score and the print the performance.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Ansel Adams<\/li><li><em>\u201cThere is one thing the photo must contain \u2013 the humanity of the moment.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Robert Frank<\/li><li><em>\u201cPhotography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever\u2026 It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Aaron Siskind<\/li><li><em>\u201cIf you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you\u2019re not out there, you\u2019ll only hear about it.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Jay Maisel<\/li><li><em>\u201cPhotography is the art of making memories tangible.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Destin Sparks<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-ajggd.nitrocdn.com\/kMoOFpDlsOVtlYJLrnSRNCQXaUFHZPTY\/assets\/static\/optimized\/rev-2868028\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Best_Photography_Quotes_Shotkit_005.jpg\" alt=\"Best_Photography_Quotes_Shotkit_005\" class=\"wp-image-18107\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>\u201cWhen you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Ted Grant<\/li><li>\u201c<em>A good snapshot keeps a moment that s gone from running away.<\/em>\u201d<br>\u2013 Eudora Welty<\/li><li><em>\u201cPhotography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Duane Michals<\/li><li><em>\u201c If you can\u2019t feel what you\u2019re looking at, then you\u2019re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Don McCullin<\/li><li><em>\u201cIt is an illusion that photos are made with the camera\u2026 they are made with the eye, heart, and head.\u201d<\/em><br>-Henri Cartier-Bresson<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-ajggd.nitrocdn.com\/kMoOFpDlsOVtlYJLrnSRNCQXaUFHZPTY\/assets\/static\/optimized\/rev-2868028\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Best_Photography_Quotes_Shotkit_003.jpg\" alt=\"photographer quotes andy warhol\" class=\"wp-image-18105\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>\u201cA portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Edward Steichen<\/li><li><em>\u201cIt\u2019s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it\u2019s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Paul Caponigro<\/li><li><em>\u201cTaking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Diane Arbus<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>\u201cA thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Annie Leibovitz<\/li><li><em>I go and get the camera and do it. Photography is a medium in which if you don\u2019t do it then, very often you don\u2019t do it at all, because it doesn\u2019t happen twice.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Paul Strand<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-ajggd.nitrocdn.com\/kMoOFpDlsOVtlYJLrnSRNCQXaUFHZPTY\/assets\/static\/optimized\/rev-2868028\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Best_Photography_Quotes_Shotkit_008.jpg\" alt=\"quotes and sayings about photography\" class=\"wp-image-18110\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>\u201cThe photo that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Scott Lorenzo<\/li><li><em>\u201cIn the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 James Wilson<\/li><li><em>\u201cYour photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Paul Strand<\/li><li><em>\u201cIf the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it\u2019s already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Eve Arnold<\/li><li><em>\u201cPhotographers stop photographing subjects too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><br>\u2013 Dorothea Lange<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-ajggd.nitrocdn.com\/kMoOFpDlsOVtlYJLrnSRNCQXaUFHZPTY\/assets\/static\/optimized\/rev-2868028\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Best_Photography_Quotes_Shotkit_014.jpg\" alt=\"photography quotes and sayings\" class=\"wp-image-18116\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>\u201cThe painter constructs, the photographer discloses.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Susan Sontag<\/li><li><em>\u201cIt is my intention to present \u2013 through the medium of photography \u2013 intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Ansel Adams<\/li><li><em>\u201cThe camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Dorothea Lange<\/li><li><em>\u201cActually, I\u2019m not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the photo is in the box, I\u2019m not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren\u2019t cooks.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Henri Cartier-Bresson<\/li><li><em>\u201cIn my mind, I visualize how a particular\u2026 sight will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Ansel Adams<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-ajggd.nitrocdn.com\/kMoOFpDlsOVtlYJLrnSRNCQXaUFHZPTY\/assets\/static\/optimized\/rev-2868028\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Best_Photography_Quotes_Shotkit_015.jpg\" alt=\"Best_Photography_Quotes by Shotkit\" class=\"wp-image-18117\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>\u201cTaking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Marc Riboud<\/li><li><em>\u201cOnce you learn to care, you can record images with your mind or on film. There is no difference between the two.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Anon<\/li><li><em>\u201cPhotograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Ambrose Bierce<\/li><li><em>\u201cMy own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera\u2019s eye may entirely change my idea.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Edward Weston<\/li><li><em>\u201cPhotography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Jean-Luc Godard<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-ajggd.nitrocdn.com\/kMoOFpDlsOVtlYJLrnSRNCQXaUFHZPTY\/assets\/static\/optimized\/rev-2868028\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Best_Photography_Quotes_Shotkit_009.jpg\" alt=\"Best_Photography_Quotes by Shotkit\" class=\"wp-image-18111\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>\u201cThe camera makes you forget you\u2019re there. It\u2019s not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Annie Leibovitz<\/li><li><em>\u201cIf you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Linda McCartney<\/li><li><em>\u201cTo me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Henri Cartier-Bresson<\/li><li><em>\u201cThere are always two people in every photo: the photographer and the viewer.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Ansel Adams<\/li><li><em>\u201cA photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Diane Arbus<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-ajggd.nitrocdn.com\/kMoOFpDlsOVtlYJLrnSRNCQXaUFHZPTY\/assets\/static\/optimized\/rev-2868028\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Best_Photography_Quotes_Shotkit_004.jpg\" alt=\"quotes by photographers\" class=\"wp-image-18106\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>\u201cAlways shoot from the shadow side.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Ted Grant<\/li><li><em>\u201cLight 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.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 George Eastman<\/li><li><em>\u201cWhat I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that\u2019s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Karl Lagerfeld<\/li><li><em>\u201cThe artist\u2019s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><br>\u2013 Paul Strand<\/li><li><em>\u201cGod creates the beauty. My camera and I are a witness.\u201d<\/em><br>Mark Denman<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for something moving to say in your next marketing video? 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