Photography Quotes and Sayings

A photographer went to a socialite party in New York. As he entered the front door, the host said “I love your pictures – they’re wonderful; you must have a fantastic camera.” He said nothing until dinner was finished, then: “That was a wonderful dinner; you must have a terrific stove.”

A camera is a “Save” button for the mind’s eye.
– Roger Kingston

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
– Ansel Adams

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
– Ansel Adams

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

You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
– Ansel Adams

There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.
– Abraham Lincoln

Photography is an art of observation. It has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
– Elliott Erwitt

Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
– Dorothea Lange

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
– Mahatma Gandhi

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

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
– Ansel Adams

Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.
– David Alan Harvey

I am not a photographer , I am a canon owner !!!
– Walaa WalkademAgmal

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.
– Diane Arbus

A picture is worth a thousand words. But dollars would be better.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
– Salman Rushdie

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.

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
-Harold Evans

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.
-Edward Steichen

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
– Tony Benn

Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
– Ansel Adams

is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
– Ansel Adams

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
– Ansel Adams

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
– Brigitte Bardot

Always seeing something, never seeing nothing, being photographer.
– Walter De Mulder

Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
– Alfred Stieglitz

The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness.
– Yann Arthus Bertrand

A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.
– Eudora Welty