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.
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.Sam Abell
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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
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If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough.Robert Capa
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.John Berger
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The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.Elliott Erwitt
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Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.Burk Uzzle
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.Ansel Adams
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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.Dorothea Lange
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Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.Arnold Newman
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Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.Martin Parr
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One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.Annie Leibovitz
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The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.Ansel Adams
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.Susan Sontag
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One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.Teju Cole