100 Photography Quotes That Will Inspire You To Take More Pictures

1. “Photographs are just light and time.” –John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
2. “Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heartwarming!” –Joseph B. Wirthlin
3. “Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film. They advertise memories.” –Theodore Levitt
4. “I have a very good memory, but it's short. Thank god for photography.” –John E. Burkowski
5. “My memories mean a lot to me, and I hold them close to my heart.” –Radhika Apte
6. “Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.” –Eadweard Muybridge
7. “I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.” –Nan Goldin
8. “The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.” –Andy Warhol
9. “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
10. “Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.” –Corrie Ten Boom
11. “Capturing the moments of today that will wow your hearts tomorrow. Life is short. Capture every moment.” –Unknown
12. “I collect memories. I look for opportunities to try new things, go to new places, and meet new people all the time.” –Marcel Wanders
13. “What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” –Karl Lagerfeld
14. “It's great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later.” –George Foreman
15. “You 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.” –Joan Miro
16. “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’ve forgotten everything.” –Aaron Siskind
17. “I believe that without memories there is no life, and that our memories should be of happy times.” –Lee Radziwill
18. “Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.” –Ambrose Bierce
19. “If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.” –Linda McCartney
20. “Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future.” –Sally Mann

21. “Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” –Dorothea Lange
22. “Photography is a love affair with life.” –Burk Uzzle
23. “The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.” –Elliott Erwitt
24. “Photography helps people to see.” –Berenice Abbott
25. “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
26. “Photography is truth.” –Jean-Luc Godard
27. “Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.” –Marc Riboud
28. “I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.” –Diane Arbus
29. “Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.” –Jacques-Henri Lartigue
30. “I don’t trust words. I trust pictures.” –Gilles Peress
31. “Photography is the story I fail to put into words.” –Destin Sparks
32. “There is one thing the photo must contain – the humanity of the moment.” –Robert Frank
33. “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
34. “A good snapshot keeps a moment that’s gone from running away.” –Eudora Welty
35. “If you don’t capture the moments, they will be gone forever.” –Lailah Gifty Akita
36. “It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart, and head.” –Henri Cartier-Bresson
37. “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
38. “In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.” –James Wilson
39. “A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or beautiful scenery, is the finder of treasure.” –Robert Doisneau
40. “God creates the beauty. My camera and I are a witness.” –Mark Denman
41. “Today everything exists to end in a photograph.” –Susan Sontag
42. “It’s amazing how photography can capture just a split second of something exquisite.” –Kiera Cass
43. “When a photo of a person looks deep into your spirit and tells you a thousand stories….. Stories from your past even before you existed, then the photo is way above any description.” –Sameh Elsayed
44. “With photography, a new language has been created. Now, for the first time, it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.” –Ernst Haas
45. “Only photograph what you love.” –Tim Walker
46. “We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.” –Ralph Hattersley
47. “Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.” –Unknown
48. “Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” –Alfred Stieglitz

49. “A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.” –Annie Leibovitz
50. “The pictures are there, and you just take them.” –Robert Capa
51. “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
52. “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
53. “Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.” –Peter Adams
54. “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
55. “If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera.” –Lewis Hine
56. “When the world asks, “what was it like?” Only the photographers can say, “See!” –Mark Denman
57. “How do we start taking pictures of people, and stop taking pictures of poses?” –Justin and Mary Marantz
58. “I’ve always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.” –James Balog
59. “To me, the magic of photography, per se, is that you can capture an instant of a second that couldn’t exist before and couldn’t exist after. It’s almost like a cowboy that draws his gun. You draw a second before or after, you miss and you’re dead – not them. To me, photography’s always like that.” –Mario Testino
60. “A camera is a SAVE button for the mind’s eye.” –Roger Kingston
61. “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
62. “I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, ‘Oh! Will you look at that?’ Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don’t look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.” –Harold Feinstein
63. “When you photograph a face… you photograph the soul behind it.” –Jean-Luc Godard
64. “When a moment in front of me appears to be particularly special, whether it be by beauty or experience, I capture it. I usually find a reason to justify taking that photo - symmetry, or color, or contrast - and it’s my hope that my photography sheds light onto what I see and do on a daily basis.” –Connor Franta
65. “Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.” –David Alan Harvey
66. “Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it’s good to capture people when they are themselves.” –Patrick Demarchelier
67. “A photograph is memory in the raw.” –Carrie Latet
68. “Because it’s free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives–something we take for granted.” –Peter Diamandis
69. “Photography is about capturing souls not smiles.” –Dragan Tapshanov
70. “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
71. “My photography is the result of being there at the right moment.” –Rene Burri
72. “The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.” –Scott Lorenzo
73. “Photography is the beauty of life captured.” –Tara Chisolm
74. “Imagine there wasn’t photography? Where would we be? How would I remember what I looked like as a kid? It links us all. It keeps us together. It’s what our history is.” –Jerry Della Femina

75. “I walk, I look, I see, I stop, I photograph.” –Leon Levinstein
76. “I’m so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.” –Gia Coppola
77. “Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.” –Steven Pinker
78. “Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.” –Paul Strand
79. “There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.” –Abraham Lincoln
80. “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
81. “Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.” –Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
82. “When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.” –Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project
83. “Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” –Alfred Stieglitz
84. “In twenty years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.” –Mary Schmich
85. “Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.” –Ansel Adams
86. “Actually, it's nature itself that creates the most beautiful pictures, I'm only choosing the perspective.” –Katja Michael
87. “Pictures could not be accessories to the story–evidence–they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame.” –Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters
88. “There's something about photography I love -- a whole memory caught in a moment.” –Rebecca Serle, One Italian Summer
89. “There has never been a great moment without a great picture.” –Vic Stah Milien
90. “All my pictures are portraits of my soul.” –Romi Florea
91. “Only a Photographer can stop time. Just by one click.” –Biju Karakkonam
92. “We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.” –Ralph Hattersley
93. “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
94. “A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.” –Eudora Welty
95. “Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.” –Herb Ritts
96. “Essentially what photography is is life lit up.” –Sam Abell
97. “Once you learn to care, you can record images with your mind or on film. There is no difference between the two.” –Unknown
98. “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
99. “Photography can be a way into worlds and memories that words sometimes fail to convey.” –Stacy Martin
100. “Capturing a beautiful moment in a photo is something I’m very passionate about.” –Nigel Barker

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