Top 50 Inspiring and Famous Quotes for Photographers
2. "The eye should learn to listen before it looks."
- Robert Frank
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3. "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
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4. "That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject; you cannot do it by not being lost yourself."
- Dorothea Lange
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5. “There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.”
- Robert Frank
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7. "It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography, everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary."
- David Bailey
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8. "Today, everything exists to end in a photograph."
- Susan Sontag
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9. “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
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10. “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
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11. “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
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12. “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
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14. “I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.”
- Ken Burns
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15. “There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.”
- Robert Heinecken
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17. “If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.”
- Eve Arnold
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18. “I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field.”
- Rick Steves
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19. “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
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21. “Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it.”
- Morley Baer
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22. “Anyone can shoot chaos. But the most perceptive photographers can make compelling pictures out of uninteresting moments.”
- Alex Tehrani
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23. “It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.”
- David Bailey
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25. “A picture is worth a thousand words.”
- Arthur Brisbane
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26. “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
- Ansel Adams
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27. “Photography is a language more universal than words.”
- Minor White
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28. “Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.”
- David Alan Harvey
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30. “A good photographer records; a great photographer reveals.”
- Skyler Reid
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31. “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
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32. “Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future.”
- Sally Mann
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33. “To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition in a fraction of a second of the significance of an event.”
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
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34. “Photography can light up darkness and expose ignorance.”
- Lewis Hine
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36. “In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”
- Alfred Stieglitz
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37. “Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.”
- Garry Winogrand
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38. “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
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39. “If you have something to say with a camera then show it, otherwise it’s better to bake a cake.”
- Jason Eskenazi
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41. “Images of people, cities, and landscapes from the air tell a unique story about our personal space and how we relate to one another. I’ve always aimed to address the bigger picture and later trends. In many ways, what a photographer does is give others a chance to step back and look at their world and gain perspective on where we stand, and what that means.”
- Vincent Laforet
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42. “The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”
- Andy Warhol
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43. “Photography is for me, a spontaneous impulse that comes from an ever-attentive eye, which captures the moment and its eternity.”
- Henri Cartier Bresson
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44. “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”
- Ansel Adams
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45. "I think that's the strength of photography - to decide the decisive moment, to click in the moment to come up with a picture that never comes back again."
- Rene Burri
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47. “We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.”
- Ralph Hattersley
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48. “I wish that all of nature’s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.”
- Annie Leibovitz
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49. “The camera has always been a guide, and it’s allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn’t even notice.”
- Don Chadwick
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50. “What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what’s around you. That’s what photography does for me.”
- Graeme Le Saux
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Author: Maitree Rawat