Photograph Sayings and Quotes

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.

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. Ansel Adams
When you photograph a face you photograph the soul behind it. Jean-Luc Godard
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. Tony Benn
A photograph gives relief to the banished and absent lover. James Iredell
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see. Roland Barthes
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever. it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything. Aaron Siskind
A good photograph is one that communicate a fact, touches the heart, leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. Irving Penn
A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it. Edward Steichen
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
If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph. Janet Malcolm
A photograph is the pause button on life. Ty Holland
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. Diane Arbus
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument. Eve Arnold
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you. Brigitte Bardot
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety. Ansel Adams
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. Ambrose Bierce
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph. Matt Hardy
Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject. Eliot Porter