Inspirational Photography Quotes & Sayings

I didn't choose photography. Photography chose me. — Gerardo Suter

I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration. — Man Ray

Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner ... ? — Francesca Woodman

Giving Back reframes portraits of philanthropy. — Valaida Fullwood

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective. — Irving Penn

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future — Sally Mann

A photograph is a biography of a moment. — Art Shay

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph. — Matt Hardy

Our eyes captures thousands of beautiful pictures everyday. — Pradeepa Pandiyan

I love the people I photograph. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them at all, yet through my images I live with them. — Bruce Gilden

If it can happen in your mind, it can happen in your camera — Arno Rafael Minkkinen

Photography has shaped the way I look at the world; it has taught me to look beyond myself and capture the world outside. — Lynsey Addario

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

Nature is a picture waiting to be taken. — Katja Michael

I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are. — Ellen Von Unwerth

art is risk made visible — Arno Rafael Minkkinen

If you don't capture the moments, it will be gone forever. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images. — Helen Levitt

Capture the sacred moment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport. — Steve McCurry

In my years of photography I have learned that many things can be sensed, seen, shaped, or resolved in a realm of quiet, well in advance of, or between, the actual clicking of shutters and the sloshing of films and papers in chemical solutions. I work to attain a state of heart, a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of the spirit. — Paul Caponigro

Photography is a language more universal than words. — Minor White

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it. — Edward Steichen

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow. — Imogen Cunningham

Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter. — Ansel Adams

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. — George Bernard Shaw

Most of the views are visible to everyone but only those who had passion can see it beyond. — Namie Richards

Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies. — Diane Arbus

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer. — Eve Arnold

If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment. — Linda McCartney

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

I see myself through others eyes and I am made anew. — Molly Moore

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation. — Susan Meiselas

Throughout their lifetime, most women learn to be uncomfortable with their physical appearance. They create a
mask of makeup that is intended to "fix" their "imperfections." They identify so much with this mask they reject their true beauty.
Feminine Transitions encourages women to remove their masks and love their true selves, completely. — Alyscia Cunningham

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated. — August Sander

I work to attain a 'state of heart', a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of spirit. — Paul Caponigro

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