Inspiring Photography Quotes

• 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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• 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

  Inspirational, Photography, People

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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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• 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

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Photography

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• In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Photography

  Alfred Stieglitz, J. Paul Getty Museum (1995). “Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.82, Getty Publications

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• A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a thing for you if you don't have anything in your head or in your heart.

  Arnold Newman

  Photography, Heart, Thinking

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• Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

  Susan Sontag

  Inspirational, Photography, Today

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.25, Macmillan

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  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

  Music, Photography, Art

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  The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

  Dorothea Lange

  Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

  Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”

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• What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

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• The eye should learn to listen before it looks.

  Robert Frank

  Photography, Eye, Black And White

  Sarah Greenough, Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1994). “Robert Frank”, Natl Gallery of Art

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• The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Important, Cameras

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  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

  Photography, Creativity, Keys

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• A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Photographer, Feels

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• A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Photography, Philosophical

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• I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Photography, Taken

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• When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

  Attributed in "AB bookman's weekly: for the specialist book world", Vol. 76, Nr. 19-27; (p. 3326), 1985.

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• You don't take a photograph, you make it.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

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• There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

  Attributed in "The Everything Digital Photography Book" by E.T. Schoch, (p. 105), 2002.

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• Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

  Man Ray

  Photography, Inspiration, Information

  "Photographers on Photography: A Critical Anthology". Book by Nathan Lyons, p. 80, 1966.

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• What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

  John Berger

  Inspirational, Photography, Light

  John Berger, Jean Mohr (2016). “Another Way of Telling: A Possible Theory of Photography”, p.75, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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• Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Forever, Missing

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• Photography is a love affair with life.

  Burk Uzzle

  Photography, Photographer, Affair

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• My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

  Steve McCurry

  Inspirational, Photography, Insightful

  "Steve McCurry’s Photographs Of His Travels Will Give You The Chills" by Rebecca Shapiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2015.

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