Famous and inspirational photography quotes are everywhere. I decided to collect my favorites so I could quickly and easily reference everything from Ansel Adams to Andy Warhol. I hope you enjoy them! If you do, please share them with others!
“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.” ~Ansel Adams
“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
“I walk, I look, I see, I stop, I photograph.” ~Leon Levinstein
“Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.” ~David Alan Harvey
“Photography is a love affair with life.” ~Burk Uzzle
“Photography is the beauty of life captured.” ~Tara Chisolm
“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely every hundredth of a second.” ~Mark Riboud
“Only photograph what you love.” ~Tim Walker
“The best thing about a pictures is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.” ~Andy Warhol
“It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.” ~Alfred Eisenstaedt
“A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.” ~Eudora Welty
“It’s not the camera but who’s behind the camera.” ~Anonymous
“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.” ~Ansel Adams
“Photography is about capturing souls not smiles.” ~Dragan Tapshanov
“I don’t trust words. I trust pictures.” ~Gilles Peress
“I think of photography like therapy.” ~Harry Gruyaert
“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographys.” ~Ansel Adams
“Photography is the story I fail to put into words.” ~Destin Sparks
“I didn’t choose photography, photography chose me.” ~Gerardo Suter
“If your pictures are not good enough you are not close enough.” ~Robert Capa
“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.” ~Robert Frank
“A camera is a save button for the mind’s eye.” ~Robert Kingston
“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” ~Ansel Adams