Inspirational Photography Quotes

• 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

  Inspirational, Photography, Feelings

  "Governance and Resistance in World Politics". Book by David Armstrong, Theo Farrell, and Bice Maiguashca, p. 68, 2003.

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• Photography is a love affair with life.

  Burk Uzzle

  Photography, Photographer, Affair

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• When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Hands, Cameras

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• Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, People, Boss

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• Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

  Yousuf Karsh

  Inspirational, Photography, Heart

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• A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Inspirational, Photography, Falling In Love

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• 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

  Inspirational, Photography, Cameras

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• Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Law, Littles

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• 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

  Inspirational, Photography, Insightful

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• I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.

  Ellen von Unwerth

  Inspirational, Photography, Photographer

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• 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

  Inspirational, Photography, Giving

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• I don't trust words. I trust pictures.

  Gilles Peress

  Inspirational, Photography, Photographer

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• Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

  Yousuf Karsh

  Inspirational, Photography, Character

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• Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.

  Matt Hardy

  Inspirational, Photography, Portraits

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• Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

  Marc Riboud

  Inspirational, Life, Photography

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• Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

  Sally Mann

  Inspirational, Photography, Past

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• Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Photography, Night

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• A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

  Edward Steichen

  Inspirational, Photography, Cameras

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• If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.

  Robert Capa

  Photography, Photographer, Good Enough

  Robert Capa (1987). “Robert Capa: cuadernos de guerra en España (1936-1939).”

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• 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

  Photography, Creativity, Light

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• The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

  Eve Arnold

  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

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• Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Powerful, Communication

  Ansel Adams, Edwin Herbert Land (1974). “Singular images”, Morgan & Morgan, Inc.

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• You don't make a photograph just with a camera

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

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• Beauty can be seen in all things.

  Matt Hardy

  Photography, Portraits, Photographer

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• All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

  Richard Avedon

  Inspirational, Photography, Cameras

  "Richard Avedon and Photo Booth’s New Look" by Maria Lokke, www.newyorker.com. September 11, 2012.

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