A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone.  I don’t think this can be true for photography.  Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty.  We won’t take an interest in it.  ~ John Loengard

Actually, I’m not all that interested in the subject of photography.  Once the picture is in the box, I’m not all that interested in what happens next.  Hunters, after all, aren’t cooks.  ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.  ~ Eudora Welty

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.  ~ Ansel Adams

All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget.  In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.  Paintings record what the painter remembers.  Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.  ~ John Berger

All photos are accurate.  None of them is the truth.  ~Richard Avedon

A photograph is a portrait painted by the sun. ~ Photography Quotes

A photograph is like the recipe – a memory the finished dish.  ~Carrie Latet

A photograph is memory in the raw.  ~Carrie Latet

A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.  ~Ansel Adams

A picture is worth ten thousand words.~ Chinese Proverb

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.~ Sam Abell

Buying a Nikon doesn’t make you a photographer.  It makes you a Nikon owner.  ~ Photography Quotes

Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film.  ~ Photography Quotes

Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn’t a very interesting photograph.  If it were, they would have more to say.  ~ Photography quotes

Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop.  ~Usman B. Asif

I’m always mentally photographing everything as practice.~  Minor White

I didn’t want to tell the tree or weed what it was.  I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.  ~Wynn Bullock

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera.  ~Lewis Hine

I hate cameras.  They are so much more sure than I am about everything.  ~John Steinbeck

I just think it’s important to be direct and honest with people about why you’re photographing them and what you’re doing.  After all, you are taking some of their soul.  ~Mary Ellen Mark

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do.  The photographs make themselves with my help.  ~Ruth Bernhard

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

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

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost – that is important.~ Jacques-Henri Lartigue

I think a photography class should be a requirement in all educational programs because it makes you see the world rather than just look at it.  ~ Photography Quotes

I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don’t find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.  ~ William Albert Allard

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.~  Paul Strand

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.~  Harry Callahan

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.~  Ansel Adams

Look, I’m not an intellectual – I just take pictures.~ Helmut Newton

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

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.  ~Richard Avedon

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.  ~Edward Steichen

No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.  ~Robert Adams

Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.  ~Minor White

One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style.  ~ Photography Quotes

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.~ Dorothea Lange

Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture.  If a photograph looks perishable we say, “Gee, I’m glad I have that moment.”  ~ John Loengard

Photograph:  a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.  ~Ambrose Bierce

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.  ~Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.  ~Sam Abbel

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment – this very moment – to stay.~  Sam Abell

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

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.~  Arnold Newman

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.~  Berenice Abbott

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.  ~Duane Michals

Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.~ Cornell Capa

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.~  W. Eugene Smith

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

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.~  Ansel Adams

Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.~  Lewis Carroll

Photography is truth.~  Jean-Luc Godard

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created.  It is a major force in explaining man to man.  ~Edward Steichen

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.~  Dorothea Lange

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.~  Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.~ Edward Weston

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.~  Frank Deford

Some photographers take reality…and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.~  Ansel Adams

Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.  ~Ansel Adams

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.  ~Harold Evans

The camera can photograph thought. It’s better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.~  Dirk Bogarde

The camera can photograph thought.~  Dirk Bogarde

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.  ~Henri Cartier Bresson

The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother.  To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country’s uniform was the one never-failing consolation.  ~Louis Fabian Bachrach

The goal is not to change your subjects, but for the subject to change the photographer.  ~ Photography Quotes

The negative is the equivalent of the composer’s score, and the print the performance.  ~Ansel Adams

The photograph itself doesn’t interest me.  I want only to capture a minute part of reality.  ~Henri Cartier Bresson

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

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.  ~Ansel Adams

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

There will be times when you will be in the field without a camera.  And, you will see the most glorious sunset or the most beautiful scene that you have ever witnessed.  Don’t be bitter because you can’t record it.  Sit down, drink it in, and enjoy it for what it is!  ~DeGriff

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.  ~W. Eugene Smith

Think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.~  Duane Michals

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

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I’d like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.~  Annie Leibovitz

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

When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track.~  Arthur Fellig

When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes.  But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls!  ~Ted Grant

Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.~  Dorthea Lange

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.~  Walker Evans

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.  ~Dorothea Lange

You don’t take a photograph, you make it.  ~Ansel Adams

You don’t take a photograph.  You ask, quietly, to borrow it.  ~Photography Quotes

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.~  Paul Strand