1. “The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” — Dorothea Lange
2. “There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.” ― Robert Frank
3. “I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.” ― Diane Arbus
4. “Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” ― Cecil Beaton
5. “Allow yourself the freedom to step away from perfection because it is only then that you can find success.” ― Chase Jarvis
6. “Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.”- Paul Strand
7. “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
8. “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
9. “Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”– Dorothea Lange
10. “We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.”
11. “I’ve always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.”– James Balog
12. “The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.” ― Susan Sontag
13. “When a moment in front of me appears to be particularly special, whether it be by beauty or experience, I capture it. I usually find a reason to justify taking that photo – symmetry, or color or contrast – and it’s my hope that my photography sheds light onto what I see and do on a daily basis.” ― Connor Franta
14. “The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.” ― Scott Lorenzo
15. “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
16. “The eye should learn to listen before it looks.” ― Robert Frank
17. “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
18. “Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.”– Bill Brandt
19. “Photography is the story I fail to put into words.” ― Destin Sparks
20. “Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.” ― Ambrose Bierce
21. “For me, the camera is a sketchbook, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.” ― Henri Cartier-Bresson
22. “A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.” ― Annie Leibovitz
23. “What do we feel when we look at a good photograph? We just want to be there, right at the exact moment that photo taken!”- Mehmet Murat Ildan
24. “If I have any ‘message’ worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no shortcuts in photography.” ― Edward Weston
25. “Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.”– Ansel Adams
26. “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
27. “We don’t learn from our good images; we learn from the ones that can be improved on.”– Jen Rozenbaum
28. “When I photograph, what I’m really doing is seeking answers to things.” ― Wynn Bullock
29. “Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.” ― Anonymous
30. “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
31. “What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” ― Karl Lagerfeld
32. “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
33. “Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That’s the thing about painting, photography, cinema.” ― David Lynch
34. “A good photograph is knowing where to stand.”- Ansel Adams
35. “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” ― Ansel Adams
36. “The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.” ― Elliott Erwitt
37. “The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.” ― Steven Pinker
38. “Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.”– Joe McNally
39. “If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.” ― Garry Winogrand
40. “Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” ― Dorothea Lange
41. “Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.” ― Diane Arbus
42. “Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.” ― Marc Riboud
43. “The biggest cliche in photography is sunrise and sunset.” ― Catherine Opie
44. “It’s not enough to just own a camera. Everyone owns a camera. To be a photographer, you must understand, appreciate, and harness the power you hold!“- Mark Denman
45. “Photography is truth.” ― Jean-Luc Godard
46. “It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.”
47. “There’s something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.”– Stefan Kanfer
48. “There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.” ― Ansel Adams
49. “Once you learn to care, you can record images with your mind or on film. There is no difference between the two.” ― Anonymous
50. “Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.”– Duane Michals
51. “Creativity needs to extend beyond the lens. Find creative ways to showcase your work and get it seen. Straight up tenacity, hard work and determination will always be part of the equation, so get to it.” ― Jimmy Chin
52. “I don’t think there’s any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.”– Imogen Cunningham
53. “A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.” ― Edward Steichen
54. “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.” ― Diane Arbus
55. “A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.” ― Ansel Adams
56. “In photography, there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” ― Alfred Stieglitz
57. “Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.”— Yousuf Karsh
58. “The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.” ― Andy Warhol
59. “Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.”- Eadweard Muybridge
60. “In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” — Alfred Stieglitz
61. “If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.” ― Linda McCartney
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