When I was young and traveling to different cities, It’s hard for me sometimes to find inspiration to do something extra within my photography career.
are you feeling the same? like when you go out for shoots and found yourself lost & sad because of the bad images.
for example when you go out to capture some shots and start thinking about the shot which you’re assuming in your mind, but never get that opportunity to capture that shot.
or even planning to capture a beautiful bird at a perfect place with perfect composition & everything but somehow didn’t get the chance to capture the bird.
these are some examples, which I face when I was young and bought a new DSLR camera.
at that time my only AIM was to capture some good shot, which I imagined and after not getting the result which I imagined, I feel very demotivated.
I’m pretty sure every single photographer faces these types of situations, once in a life.
that’s the reason, I’m sharing this article with you.
in this article, I’m going to share some of the best & Inspirational Photography quotes for each and every single passionate photographer.
So if you’re feeling low or demotivated as a photographer then please remember all these Inspirational Photography quotes which are shared by my most famous photographers around the world.
hope these Photography quotes help you to motivate yourself to capture something amazing.
now without talking more about it, let me share some of the best and inspirational photography quotes.
100+ Inspirational Photography quotes to remember
I’m dividing this article into three different parts.
like one part contains some inspirational photography quotes, another part contains some photography captions or saying for social media & the last one contains my top 15 favorite photography quotes of all time.
hope you guys like it…
Photography Quotes to remember
“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” – Dorothea Lange
“If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.” — Linda McCartney
“If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you’re not out there, you’ll only hear about it.” – Jay Maisel
“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
“Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.” — Matt Hardy
“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.” — Annie Leibovitz
“I think good dreaming is what leads to good photographs.” — Wayne Miller
“Always shoot from the shadow side.” – Ted Grant
“We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.” — Ralph Hattersley
“Once you learn to care, you can record images with your mind or on film. There is no difference between the two.” — Anonymous
“It’s amazing how photography can capture just a split second of something exquisite.” – Kiera Cass
“A tear contains an ocean. A photographer is aware of the tiny moments in a persons life that reveal greater truths.” — Anonymous
“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.” — Ansel Adams
“Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.” – Martin Parr
“Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.” — Anonymous
“Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.” — Yousuf Karsh
“Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.” – Duane Michals
“Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.” — Ambrose Bierce
“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 never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.” — Diane Arbus
“Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.” – Sebastian Smee
“My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.” — Steve McCurry
“One advantage of photography is that it’s visual and can transcend language.” – Lisa Kristine
“If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera.” – Lewis Hine
The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.” – Ernst Hass
“Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary.” –Harold Feinstein
“It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart, and head.” –Henri Cartier-Bresson
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” — Dorothea Lange
“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” — Ansel Adams
“Photographers stop photographing subjects too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.” – Dorothea Lange
“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
“Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.” – Ansel Adams
“Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.” – Jean-Luc Godard
“The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.” — Scott Lorenzo
“My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera’s eye may entirely change my idea.” – Edward Weston
“Photography is the art of making memories tangible.” – Destin Sparks
“Essentially what photography is is life lit up.” — Sam Abell
“Only photograph what you love.” — Tim Walker
“The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.” — Elliott Erwitt
“Photography is a means by which we learn to see the ordinary.” – David Bailey
“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.” – Susan Sontag
“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.” — Marc Riboud
“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.” — Diane Arbus
“The photo that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.” – Scott Lorenzo
“The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.” – Steven Pinker
“I like to photograph others before they know what their best angles are.” – Ellen Von Unwerth
— Alfred Stieglitz
“You don’t take a photograph. You ask quietly to borrow it.” — Unknown
“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.” — Susan Sontag
“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
“Photography is an itch that won’t go away. No matter how much you scratch it.” – Dara McGrath
“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” — Ansel Adams
“Actually, I’m not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the photo is in the box, I’m not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren’t cooks.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
“Kodak sells film, but they don’t advertise film; they advertise memories.” – Theodore Levitt
“The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.” – Orson Welles
“Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.” — Diane Arbus
“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 the image, I live with them.” – Bruce Gilden
“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
“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
“The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.” – Susan Meiselas
“It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.” — Alfred Eisenstaedt
“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
“I didn’t choose photography, photography chose me.” – Gerardo Suter
“A good snapshot keeps a moment that s gone from running away.” – Eudora Welty
“God creates the beauty. My camera and I are a witness.”- Mark Denman
“Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.” – Paul Strand
“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
“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
“Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.” — Robert Frank
“The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?” – Edward Weston
“In photography, there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”
“I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.” — Ellen Von Unwerth
“Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.” — Imogen Cunningham
“In my mind, I visualize how a particular… sight will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.” – Ansel Adams
“A photograph is like a recipe – the memory is the finished dish.” – Carrie Latet
“One doesn’t stop seeing. One doesn’t stop framing. It doesn’t turn off and turn on. It’s on all the time.” — Annie Leibovitz
“In photography, there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.” — August Sander
“Skill in photography is acquired by practice, and not by purchase.” –Percy W. Harris
“When the world asks, “what was it like?” Only the photographers can say, “See!” – Mark Denman
“It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.” – Ansel Adams
The negative is the equivalent of the composer’s score and the print the performance.” – Ansel Adams
here are some of the best quotes which you can use as photography captions on Instagram, Facebook & Twitter.
yeah, it’s kind of WhatsApp status for photographers or photography captions for Instagram & other social media platforms…
Photography Captions/Status For Whatsapp, Instagram & Facebook
”Photography, to me, is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.” – Jacques-Henri Lartigue
“When people ask me what equipment I use – I tell them my eyes.” — Anonymous
“Photography is the story I fail to put into words.” — Destin Sparks
“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.” — Andy Warhol
“Once photography enters your bloodstream, it is like a disease.” — Anonymous
“Photography is truth.” — Jean-Luc Godard
“Photography is the story I fail to put into words.” – Destin Sparks
“When I photograph I make love.” – Alfred Stieglitz
“Contrast is what makes photography interesting.” – Conrad Hall
“The camera makes you forget you’re there. It’s not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.” — Annie Leibovitz
“Great photography is about the depth of feeling, not the depth of field.” — Peter Adams
“When I photograph, what I’m really doing is seeking answers to things.” — Wynn Bullock
“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.” – Anon
while I was collecting all these photography quotes, I handpicked some of my favorite quotes which inspired me.
here are some of my favorite photography quotes…
Favorite Photography Quotes
“If you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of more interesting stuff.” — Jim Richardson
“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place…” – Eliott Erwitt
“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” — Karl Lagerfeld
“In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.” – James Wilson
“All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.” — Richard Avedon
“Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.” — Yousuf Karsh
“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.” — Diane Arbus
“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
“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 has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.” – Bill Brandt
“I don’t trust words. I trust pictures.” — Gilles Peress
“It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.” – Alfred Eisenstaedt
“You photograph with all your ideology.” – Sebastiao Salgado
That’s it, hope you guys enjoyed each and every single photography quote and get enough experience to do more within your photography career ( best of luck :)).
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