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Photography Quotes

Photography is probably the piece of art I love the most. Let me share with you some wonderful, inspiring, photography quotes.

“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.” – Ansel Adams

“No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.” ~ Robert Adams

“It’s weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don’t even amount to a couple of hours.“– James Lalropui Keivom

“A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.” ~Ansel Adams

“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.” ~Ansel Adams

“I think a photography class should be a requirement in all educational programs because it makes you see the world rather than just look at it.” ~Anonymous

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

“I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field.” – Rick Steves

“Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.” – André Bazin

photography quotes“I am always surprised when I see several cameras, a gaggle on lenses, filters, meters, et cetera, rattling around in a soft bag with a complement of refuse and dust. Sometimes the professional is the worst offender!” – Ansel Adams

“Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop” – Ansel Adams

“A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.” – Roland Barthes

“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.” –Robert Capa

“Life is like a good black and white photograph, there’s black, there’s white, and lots of shades in between.” –Karl Heiner

“When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls!” ~Ted Grant

“I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.” –Pablo Picasso

“Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.” – Susan Sontag

“You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory.” – Anonymous

“I didn’t want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.” ~Wynn Bullock

“One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style.” ~Anonymous

“I just think it’s important to be direct and honest with people about why you’re photographing them and what you’re doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.” ~Mary Ellen Mark

After this great piece of inspiration, please choose your favorite quote and write it on the comments section. Let’s see who’s the more liked one. Also, if you want, you can add some photography quotes that are not on the list. Thank you!

Life Quotes

“Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.” – Adele Brookman

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.” – Lewis Grizzard

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard

“I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.” – John Wooden

“A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.” – Benjamin Franklin

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs

“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.” – Barack Obama

“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.” – Mark Twain

“I have no race prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can’t be any worse.” – Mark Twain

“Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.” – Mark Twain

“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.” – Ansel Adams

“But men must know that in this theater of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.” – Francis Bacon