Do you love reading inspirational quotes? Everyone loves a good quote or saying that they can associate with. Here’s our selection of some of the best inspirational photography quotes for photographers by photographer’s.
They are perfect for sharing on Instagram, Pinterest or Facebook Posts. Just add the quotes to your images.
“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
“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
– Ansel Adams
“We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.”
– Ralph Hattersley
“Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.”
– Ansel Adams
“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.”
– Annie Leibovitz
“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
– Elliott Erwitt
“A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.”
– Edward Steichen
“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 best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”
– Andy Warhol
“Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.”
– Diane Arbus
I hope our selection of photography quotes inspire you. If you have any favorite photography quotes of your own, leave them in the comments below.