50 Photography quotes you should know
Here are the 50 most popular photography quotes you should know
- Your first 10,000 photos are your worst – Henri Cartier Bresson
- If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough- Robert Capa
- The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it- Ansel Adams
- The best camera is the one that you have with you- Chase Jarvis
- Everyone will take 1 great picture . I’ve done better because i’ve taken two- David Bailey
- You cannot depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus- Mark Twain
- A good photographer is knowing where to stand- Ansel Adams
- A true photograph need not be explained nor can it be contained in words- Ansel Adams
- The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt – Henri Cartier-Bresson
- If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it’s a street photograph- Bruce Gil
- I have discovered photography. Now i can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn- Picasso
- If you keep your cool, you’ll get everything- Elliot Erwitt
- Great photography is about depth of feeling , not depth of field- Peter Adams
- Sometimes the simplest pictures are the hardest to get- Neil Leifer
- Which of my photographs is my favourite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow- Innogen Cunningham
- It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see- Henry David Thoreau
- My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport- Steve McCurry
- I only use a camera like i use a toothbrush. It does the job – Don McCullin
- What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce. ― Karl Lagerfeld
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. ― Ansel Adams
- You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved. ― Ansel Adams
- When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls! ― Ted Grant
- The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. ― Dorothea Lange
- You don’t take a photograph, you make it. ― Ansel Adams
- I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. ― Mahatma Gandhi
- There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. ― Ansel Adams
- Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. ― Ansel Adams
- Always seeing something, never seeing nothing, being photographer ― Walter De Mulder
- Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment. ― Ansel Adams
- A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know. ― Peter Gasser
- 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
- The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words. ― Elliott Erwitt
- I don’t trust words. I trust pictures. ― Gilles Peress
- Pictures put you in front of a reality that most of the times you don’t want to see, don’t want to know about, don’t want to get involved. ― Oliviero Toscani
- I want to fly like a Butterfly around this beautiful world, till the last frame of my life and the last click of my heart. ― Biju Karakkonam
- A photograph is a click away. A good photograph is a hundred clicks away and a better one, a thousand clicks away ― Kowtham Kumar K
- A good photograph is like a good wine, they both age well. ― Leslie Dean Brown
- The camera basically is a license to explore. ― Jerry Uelsmann
- Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like. ― David Alan Harvey
- Photography is the story I fail to put into words. ― Destin Sparks
- 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
- I always thought good photos were like good jokes. If you have to explain it, it just isn’t that good. – Anonymous
- Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. – Ansel Adams
- 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
- Skill in photography is acquired by practice and not by purchase. – Percy W. Harris
- 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
- What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce. ― Karl Lagerfeld
- 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
- Photography is love affair with life.- Burk Uzzle
- 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