Are you a budding photographer looking for a bit of inspiration to help get your creative juices flowing?
Whether you’re just starting out or working on mastering the art of capturing those perfect moments, we’ve got something that’ll invigorate and ignite your inner artist.
This blog post contains 70+ amazing photography quotes from some of the world’s most renowned photographers – each providing unique insights into what it means to take beautiful photos.
From time-tested wisdom about composition and technique, to ideas about how to capture emotion and tell stories through images, these inspiring words will spur on the ambition and vision within every serious shutterbug!
So read on, admirers of artful imagery; fuel your craftsmanship with insight from the greatest photographers in history!
We’ve compiled a list of the most popular “Photography Quotes.”
Photography Quotes
1). “When I photograph I make love.” – Alfred Stieglitz
2). “There is one thing the photo must contain – the humanity of the moment.” – Robert Frank
3). “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” – Ansel Adams
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4). “Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
5). “If your photos aren’t good enough, then you’re not close enough.” – Robert Capa
6). “The thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.” – Annie Leibovitz
7). “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” – Ansel Adams
8). “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
9). “There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.” – Ansel Adams
10). “A photograph is like a recipe memory of the finished dish.” – Carrie Latet
11). “The two most engaging powers of a photograph are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.” – William Thackeray
12). “Photography is a love affair with life.” – Burk Uzzle
Photography quotes about memories
13). “A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.” – E. Welty
14). “We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone.” – Katie Thurmes
15). “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
16). “Capture every moment as if it’s your last.”
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17). “A memory is a photograph taken by the heart to make a special moment last forever.”
18). “A photograph is something you can look at and remember the old times.”
19). “A photograph captures a moment for eternity.”
20). “A picture is worth a thousand words, but the memories are priceless.”
21). “Photography is the art of making memories tangible.” – Destin Sparks
22). “Sometimes I wish I could go back to my childhood and capture all those happy memories.”
23). “Taking pictures is savoring life intensely every hundredth of a second.” – Marc Riboud
24). “Thanks to photography, some memories overstay their welcome.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Nature photography quotes
25). “It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.” ― Henri Cartier-Bresson
26). “In nature, light creates color. In the picture, color creates the light.”
27). “Nature is painting for us, day after day, a picture of infinite beauty.”
28). “Actually, it’s nature itself that creates the most beautiful pictures, I’m only choosing the perspective.” – Katja Michael
29). “Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.” – Ansel Adams
30). “A camera is just a medium to capture what you have in your vision, and vision is something that cannot be bought.” ― Neeraj Agnihotri
31). “Nature never goes out of style.”
32). “There is something marvelous in all things nature.” – Aristotle
33). “Photography is like exploring a new dimension, only I can go there but I can show you where I’ve been.”
34). “Road trips will inevitably offer amazing vistas and breathtaking views. Shooting through the windshield can yield surprising results.” – Tracey Clark
35). “I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.” – Diane Arbus
36). “The earth is art, the photographer is only a witness.” – Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Wedding photography quotes
37). “It is a profound honor as a photographer to witness two people falling in love.” – Jesh de Rox
38). “Frozen in time, captured in memories, filled in passion, she melted in love before his eyes.” – Luffina Lourduraj
39). “Just because you can, doesn’t necessarily mean that you should!” – Bill Collins
40). “The most important thing at a wedding is to photograph the bride. The second most important thing is not to forget the groom.” – Alix Reuters
41). “If you force it and you keep looking for moments then you’ll end up shooting what you think the wedding should look like rather than actual moments that are unfolding in front of you.” – Joe Buissink
42). “The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.” – William Lyon Phelps
43). “Just remember…the cake gets eaten, the flowers will die, but wedding photos will last forever.”
44). “We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.” – Ralph Hattersley
45). “If I can dig deeper and show more of who people are, aside from it being a wedding day, then I feel I’ve succeeded. Usually, at the end of the night, that comes out. The party’s over, and they one hundred percent become themselves.” – Tyler Wirken
46). “This photo was taken *before* I started crying.”
Photography quotes for Instagram
47). “Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.”
48). “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
49). “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
50). “Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” – Dorothea Lange
51). “And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.” – Galen Rowell
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52). “Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time.”
53). “The pictures are there, and you just take them.” – Robert Capa
54). “Everyone takes pictures, so you need to have your own opinion.” – René Burri
55). “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
56). “The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.” — Andy Warhol
57). “If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it’s a street photograph.” – Bruce Gilden
58). “There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.” – Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational photography quotes
59). “There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.” – Ansel Adams
60). “A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.” – Diane Arbus
61). “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
62). “The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.” – Paul Strand
63). “With creating, we are literally bringing something into existence that didn’t exist before.” – Montana Dennis
64). “I believe photographers should shoot what they want, not shoot what they get.” – Roberto Valenzuela
65). “In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.” – James Wilson
66). “It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart, and head.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
67). “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
68). “Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future.” – Mehmet Murat ildan
69). “Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even if it is clumsy, that doesn’t look like somebody else’s work.” – William Klein
70). “The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.” — Helmut Newton
