“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.” - Robert Frank

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“Photography is a love affair with life.” - Burk Uzzle

“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls!” - Ted Grant

“Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.” - Paul Strand

“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation, and execution.” - Ansel Adams

“The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.” - Neil Armstrong

“I don’t trust words. I trust pictures.” - Gilles Peress

“Photography is an art that is never satisfied with what it has done, with what it is doing, with what it will do.” - Dorothea Lange

“Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.” - Ansel Adams

“A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.” - Salman Rushdie

“Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.” - Bruno Barbey

“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place.” - Elliott Erwitt

“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” - Karl Lagerfeld

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” - Ansel Adams

“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.” - Andy Warhol

“In photography, there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” - Alfred Stieglitz

“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson

“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.” - John Berger

“The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?” - Edward Weston

“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.” - Diane Arbus

“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.” - Robert Frank

“Photography is the story I fail to put into words.” - Destin Sparks

“A photograph is the pause button of life.” - Ty Holland

“Photography is about capturing souls, not smiles.” - Dragan Tapshanov

“The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.” - Elliott Erwitt

“I wish that all of nature’s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.” - Annie Leibovitz

“In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.” - David Alan Harvey

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” - Dorothea Lange

“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.” - Ansel Adams

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” - Dorothea Lange

“Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.” - Ansel Adams

“A photograph is a small voice, at best, but sometimes—one photograph—can be a shouting.” - Mary Ellen Mark

“Photography is the only language that can be understood and enjoyed by anyone, anywhere in the world.” - Bruno Barbey

“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 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

“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

“Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Photography is an art of particularizing.” - John Szarkowski

“A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent.” - Eugene Atget

“What I like most about photography is the moment that you can’t anticipate—it’s all about being in the right place at the right time.” - René Burri

“The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.” - Robert Mapplethorpe

“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.” - Diane Arbus

“Skill in photography is acquired by practice and not by purchase.” - Percy W. Harris

“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.” - Ansel Adams

“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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100 Best Photography Quotes