75 Photography Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing photography sayings.
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Short Photography Sayings
“Only photograph what you love.” —Tim Walker
“A picture is a poem without words.” —Unknown
“A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.” —Eudora Welty
“The biggest cliche in photography is sunrise and sunset.” —Catherine Opie
“Photography is a love affair with life.” —Burk Uzzle
“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.” —Ansel Adams
“Skill in photography is acquired by practice and not by purchase.” —Percy W. Harris
“Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.” —Anon
“Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.” —Eliot Porter
“Photography must be integrated with the story.” —James Wong Howe
“The camera plays the smallest role in good photography.” —Christopher Michel
“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” —Ansel Adams
“Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.” —Ansel Adams
“A picture is worth a thousand words.” —Arthur Brisbane
“When people ask me what equipment I use – I tell them my eyes.” —Anon
“Photography is the story I fail to put into words.” —Destin Sparks
“My photography is the result of being there at the right moment.” —Rene Burri
“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.” —Susan Sontag
“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” —Henri Cartier-Bresson
“A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.” —Dorthea Lange
“I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.” —Diane Arbus
“I think good dreaming is what leads to good photographs.” —Wayne Miller
“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.” —Susan Sontag
“Photography helps people to see.” —Berenice Abbott
“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.” —Robert Frank
“Photography helps people to see.” —Berenice Abbott
“A good photographer records; a great photographer reveals.” —Skyler Reid
“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” —Ansel Adams
“Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.” —David Alan Harvey
“Once photography enters your bloodstream, it is like a disease.” —Unknown
“Photography can light up darkness and expose ignorance.” —Lewis Hine
“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.” —Susan Sontag
Photography Sayings
“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.” —Diane Arbus
“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” —Dorothea Lange
“Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” —Alfred Stieglitz
“The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.” —Scott Lorenzo
“It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.” —Alfred Eisenstaedt
“Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.” —Ansel Adams
“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
“There is one thing the photograph must contain – the humanity of the moment.” —Robert Frank
“When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it.” —Jean-Luc Godard
“Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.” —Jacques-Henri Lartigue
“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.” —Ansel Adams
“Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.” —Paul Strand
“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
“A tear contains an ocean. A photographer is aware of the tiny moments in a persons life that reveal greater truths.” —Anon
“The camera doesn’t make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to See.” —Ernst Haas
“In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.” —August Sander
“There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.” —Robert Heinecken
“Skill in photography is acquired by practice and not by purchase.” —Percy W. Harris
“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.” —Henri Cartier-Bresson
“If you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of more interesting stuff.” —Jim Richardson
“If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.” —Linda McCartney
“Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.” —Ambrose Bierce
“We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.” —Ralph Hattersley
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
“Buying a Nikon doesn’t make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon owner.” —Unknown
“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” —Ansel Adams
“A picture means I know where I was every minute. That’s why I take pictures. It’s a visual diary.” —Andy Warhol
“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
“Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.” —Unknown
“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
“The two most engaging powers of a photograph are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.” —William Thackeray
“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
“Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.” —Berenice Abbott
“I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.” —Ellen Von Unwerth
Top Ten Photography Sayings
Here you will find top ten photography sayings selected by our team
- “A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.” —Diane Arbus
- “The biggest cliche in photography is sunrise and sunset.” —Catherine Opie
- “It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.” —Alfred Eisenstaedt
- “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
- “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” —Ansel Adams
- “A tear contains an ocean. A photographer is aware of the tiny moments in a persons life that reveal greater truths.” —Anon
- “When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it.” —Jean-Luc Godard
- “Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.” —David Alan Harvey
- “The two most engaging powers of a photograph are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.” —William Thackeray
- “When people ask me what equipment I use – I tell them my eyes.” —Anon
