Inspirational Quotes for Photographers:

Aren’t you getting enough inspiration from pictures on NatGeo or Discovery ? Then check out these most Inspirational Quotes for Photographers.  I have compiled an awe-inspiring list of quotes about photography to get you motivate and keep you going.

Most Inspirational Quotes for Photographers

“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”
– Ansel Adams

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

“When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.”
– Alfred Eisenstaedt

“Photography helps people to see.”
– Berenice Abbott

“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
– Karl Lagerfeld

Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.”
— Anonymous

“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

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

“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.”
— Annie Leibovitz

“You don’t take a photograph. You ask quietly to borrow it.”
— Unknown

“A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.”
— Edward Steichen

“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

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

“Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.”
— Diane Arbus

“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 camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
— Dorothea Lange

“Essentially what photography is is life lit up.”
— Sam Abell

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

“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.”
— Diane Arbus

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

“Once you learn to care, you can record images with your mind or on film. There is no difference between the two.”
— Anonymous

“Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.”
— Ambrose Bierce

“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

“Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.”
— Matt Hardy

“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting 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

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”
— Ansel Adams

“When people ask me what equipment I use – I tell them my eyes.”
— Anonymous

“I wish that all of nature’s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.”
— Annie Leibovitz

“I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.”
— Diane Arbus

“All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”
— Richard Avedon

“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”
— Susan Sontag

“I think good dreaming is what leads to good photographs.”
— Wayne Miller

“Only photograph what you love.”
— Tim Walker

“In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.”
— August Sander

“When I photograph, what I’m really doing is seeking answers to things.”
— Wynn Bullock

“Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.”
— Yousuf Karsh

“It’s weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don’t even amount to a couple of hours.”
— James Lalropui Keivom

“Once photography enters your bloodstream, it is like a disease.”
— Anonymous

“Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.”
— Imogen Cunningham

FUNNY PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES

“There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Gosh, my job is so easy! I just click a button all day… said no photographer ever.”
– Unknown

“You might be a photographer if: Your eyesight from staring at the computer has gone from F11 to F1.8.”
– Naman Pokarna’s Photography

“Today, I am going to shoot someone… and they will love me for it!”
– Unknown

NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES

“I wish that all of nature’s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.”
– Annie Leibovitz

“Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ‘how’, while others of a more curious nature will ask ‘why’. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.”
– Man Ray

“Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.”
– Ambrose Bierce

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

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