Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old photograph quotes, photograph sayings, and photograph proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good.Garry Winogrand
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A camera is a save button for the mind's eye.Roger Kingston
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A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.Salman Rushdie
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Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.Yousuf Karsh
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A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera saw a piece of time and space.Garry Winogrand
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Its one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, its another thing to make a portrait of who they are.Paul Caponigro
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Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future.Sally Mann
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The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.Andy Warhol
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A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.Eudora Welty
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There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.Abraham Lincoln
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When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls!Ted Grant
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It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.Alfred Eisenstaedt
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A photograph is a click away. A good photograph is a thousand clicks away and a better one, a million clicks away.Kowtham Kumar
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There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.Robert Frank
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Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.Marc Riboud
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A click of the shutter, a crank of the film, and you've caught forever a significant bit of life.Willis Peterson
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We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.Ralph Hattersley
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Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.Anonymous
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it.Ansel Adams
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Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph.Andre Kertesz
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.Susan Sontag
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In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.Alfred Stieglitz
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Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.Peter Adams
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If you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of more interesting stuff.Jim Richardson
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To take photographs means to recognize simultaneously and within a fraction of a. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.Henri Cartier-Bresson
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.Ansel Adams
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.Dorothea Lange
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Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere.John Szarkowski
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The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.Scott Lorenzo
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Photography is an art of observation. It has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.Elliott Erwitt