Here’s a collection of photography quotes from which I draw inspiration:
“No place is boring if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and a pocket full of unexposed film.” Robert McAdams
“Photography is the story I fail to put into words” Destin Sparks
“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment” Robert Frank
“You dont Takes a photograph. You ask quietly to borrow it” Unknown
“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 Capanigro
“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 Erwin
“Photography has nothing to do with cameras” Lucas Gentry
“Essentially what photography is is life lit up.” Sam Abell
“Once you learn to care, you can record images with your mind or on film. There is no difference between the two.” Anonymous
“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” Karl Lagerfeld
“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
“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.” Joan Miro
“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points how the strong man stumbled. or where the doer of deed scould have done them better/ The credit belongs tp the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end th triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” Teddy Roosevelt
“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 my images I live with them.” Bruce Gilden
“Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.” Yousef Karsh
“Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.” Peter Adams
“The negative is the equivalent of the composer’s score and the print is the equivalent of the conductor’s performance.” Ansel Adams
“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.” Robert Frank
“The biggest cliche in photography is sunrise and sunset.” Catherine Opie
“My love of photography is melded with the ability to capture what I want to remember in the moment I want to never forget.” Devin Dygert
“Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.” David Alan Harvey “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
