Quotes about Photography

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

“The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness ”

― Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Earth from Above

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

― Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet

“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what
is being photographed.”
― Ansel Adams

“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”

― Henri Cartier-Bresson

“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.”

― Ansel Adams

“Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.”
― Ansel Adams

“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite

variety of perception, interpretation and execution.”
― Ansel Adams

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

“In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a
Leitmotiv.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson

“A photograph is like a recipe memory the finished dish.”

― Carrie Latet

“The two most engaging powers of a photograph are to make new things familiar and familiar
things new.”
― William Thackeray

“Photography is the art of frozen time. The ability to store emotion and feelings within a frame.”
― Unknown
“Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.”
― Sebastian Smee

“Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”

― Alfred Stieglitz

“Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges
around some facts, you change those facts.”
― Garry Winogrand

“I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that
their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.”
― Harry Callahan

“Photography helps people to see.”

― Berenice Abbott

“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”
― Ansel Adams

“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.”
― Diane Arbus