Photography is more than taking a picture. It portrays stories, evokes emotions, and documents. Get inspired by 20 photography quotes.
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1. “The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.” -Andy Warhol
2. “A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.” -Annie Leibovitz
3. “Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a person’s face.” -Steve McCurry
4. “All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.” -Richard Avedon
5. “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.” -Diane Arbus
6. “You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the universe, things that you hate about the universe. It’s capable of doing both.” -Gordon Parks
7. “One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.” -Dorothea Lange
8. “To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.” -Henri Cartier-Bresson
9. “There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.” -Ansel Adams
10. “A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.” -Ansel Adams
11. “Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.” -Yousuf Karsh
12. “Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.” -Peter Adams
13. “You should be able to look at me and see my work. You should be able to look at my work and see me.” -Roy DeCarava
14. “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.” -Robert Capa
15. “Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.” -Margaret Bourke-White
16. “Photography is the story I fail to put into words.” -Destin Sparks
17. “Wherever there is light, one can photograph.” -Alfred Stieglitz
18. “To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.” -Susan Sontag
19. “Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.” -Berenice Abbott
20. “It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.” -Alfred Eisenstaedt
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