Great Photography Quotes

Great Photography Quotes

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156 Great Photography Quotes

1. You don’t take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it.
Author Unknown


2. A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
Ansel Adams


3. The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it.
Ansel Adams


4. If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.
Robert Capa


5. A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Diane Arbus


6. There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
Ansel Adams


7. 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 Sussman


8. There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
Ansel Adams


9. Results are uncertain even among the more experienced photographers.
Matthew Brady


10. The negative is the equivalent of the composer’s score and the print the performance.
Ansel Adams


11. 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


12. Buying a Nikon doesn’t make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon owner.
Author Unknown


13. A photograph is like a recipea memory the finished dish.
Carrie Latet


14. You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
Ansel Adams


15. In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
Alfred Stieglitz

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“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” - Alfred Stieglitz

“When photographing, turn around, your best picture might be behind you.” – David Huffines

“Photography is the beauty of life, captured.” - Tara Chisholm

…photographs open doors into the past but they also allow a look into the future.
- Sally Mann



“A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.”
- Jean Cocteau


“Wherever there is light, one can photograph.”
- Alfred Stieglitz




“Good better best never let it rest tip your good is your better and your better is your best. “ - Anonymous


“Black and white photography is a perfect lie. We must not let colour destroy this image.” - Patrick Summerfield

“A photographer’s reality is what he or she wants to show.” - Fred Picker

“There’s no rhyme or reason to what makes a great photo. Most of the time it is pure chance and a quick shutter finger, but other times it is planning, ingenuity and sometimes even stalking.” - Chelsea Roberson

“If you can see, you can also take pictures. But learning to see may take a long time. “ - Anonymous

“Photography has increased my awareness.” - Andreas Carl

“God makes the pictures I just take ‘em.” - Ed H. Urqhardt

“When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.” - Minor White

“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

“Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.” - David Alan Harvey

“I don’t trust words. I trust pictures.” – Gilles Peress

“My last word is that it all depends on what you visualize.” - Ansel Adams

“Love for photography. Eat sleep and breathe it. Become a photograph.” - Anonymous

“A picture should be looked at – not talked about.” - Elliott Erwitt

“A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed.” - Richard Avedon

“Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the ‘ah-ha’.” - Ernst Haas

I don’t speak emotionally about my pictures. That’s for other people to do. I will say that I love my photographs. That’s what keeps me going. That’s what keeps me ambitious.” - George Tice

“Photography is like life… What does it all mean? I don’t know – but you get an impression, a feeling…. An impression of walking through the street, walking through the park, walking through life. I’m very suspicious of people who say they know what it means.” - Leonard Freed


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