Photography Qoutes

Photography Qoutes

“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.”
— Robert Frank


“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 go and get the camera and do it. Photography is a medium in which if you don’t do it then, very often you don’t do it at all, because it doesn’t happen twice.”
– Paul Strand


"It's not enough to just own a camera. Everyone owns a camera. To be a photographer, you must understand, appreciate, and harness the power you hold!"
- Mark Denman


“We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.”
— Ralph Hattersley


“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


“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”
— Andy Warhol


“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


“Photography is the art of making memories tangible.”
– Destin Sparks


“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson


“A good snapshot keeps a moment that s gone from running away.”
– Eudora Welty


“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


“If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it’s already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.”
— Eve Arnold


“Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future.”
— Sally Mann


“Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures.”
— Gregory Crewdson


“The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.”
— Elliott Erwitt


“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


“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


“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely every hundredth of a second.”
— Marc Riboud


“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


“Life is like a camera. Just focus on what’s important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things don’t work out, just take another shot.”
— Unknown


“Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph.”
— Andre Kertesz
“The best camera is the one that’s with you.”
— Chase Jarvis
“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
— Henri Cartier-Bresson