Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old photography quotes, photography sayings, and photography proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce.Karl Lagerfeld
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When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it.Jean-Luc Godard
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The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.Sally Mann
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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
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Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.Robert Frank
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.Dorothea Lange
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.Susan Sontag
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Results are uncertain even among the more experienced photographers.Matthew Brady
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We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.Ralph Hattersley
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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.Don McCullin
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Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.Will Self
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There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.Robert Frank
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Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever.
Photographs are.Susan Sontag
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Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.Alfred Stieglitz
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A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.Salman Rushdie
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.Ansel Adams
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A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.Edward Steichen
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A photograph is like a recipe memory the finished dish.Carrie Latet
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The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.Eliot Porter
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.Ansel Adams
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Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.Yousuf Karsh
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Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.Sebastian Smee
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There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.Eve Arnold
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Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.Edward Weston
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Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.Jacques-Henri Lartigue
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Photography is the story I fail to put into words.Destin Sparks
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I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.Rosie O'Donnell
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.Ansel Adams
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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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The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.Scott Lorenzo