Inspiration awakens us to new possibilities by allowing us to transcend our ordinary experiences and limitations. Inspiration propels a person from apathy to possibility, and transforms the way we perceive our own capabilities. Our selected list of photography quotes will help you look at the art of photography in a whole new light.
1. “Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.” — Yousuf Karsh
2. “Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.” — Peter Adams
3. “If Photoshop is the answer, you’re asking the wrong question” – Dean Farrell
4. “It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.” — Alfred Eisenstaedt
5. “The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.”– Robert Mapplethorpe
6. “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
7. “I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today’s existence.”– Robert Mapplethorpe
8. “If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you’re not out there, you’ll only hear about it.”– Jay Maisel
9. “What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”– Karl Lagerfeld
10. “Photography can light up darkness and expose ignorance.”– Lewis Hine
11. “A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.”– Eudora Welty
12. “The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” — Dorothea Lange
13. “A good photograph is knowing where to stand.”– Ansel Adams
14. “The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.” — Scott Lorenzo
15. “Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”– George Eastman
16. “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
17. “If you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of more interesting stuff.”– Jim Richardson
18. “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
19. “Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.”– David Alan Harvey
20. “Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.”– Joe McNally
21. “I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.” — Diane Arbus
22. “It doesn’t matter if you’re photographing a porter in a market in Marrakech or you’re photographing the king of Morroco. You have the same sympathetic approach to everybody. You be nice to everybody, basically.”– Albert Watson
23. “You just have to live and life will give you pictures.”– Henri Cartier Bresson
24. “We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.” — Ralph Hattersley
25. “A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.” — Annie Leibovitz
26. “The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”— Andy Warhol
27. “Where light and shadow fall on your subject – that is the essence of expression and art through photography.”– Scott Bourne
28. “Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.” — Ambrose Bierce
29. “Photography is truth.” — Jean-Luc Godard
30. “If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.” — Linda McCartney
31. “When people ask me what equipment I use – I tell them my eyes.” — Anonymous
32. “In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”– Alfred Stieglitz
33. “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
34. “The eye should learn to listen before it looks.” – Robert Frank
35. “For me, the camera is a sketchbook, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
