33 Most Inspirational Photography Quotes in 2022

A collection of 33 most inspirational photography quotes in 2022.


  • Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.
    Henri Cartier-Bresson

  • Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.
    - Paul Strand

  • If you can shoot on the street you can shoot anything.
    -Mary Ellen Mark

  • Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.
    - Jacques-Henri Lartigue

  • There are always two people in every photo: the photographer and the viewer.
    Ansel Adams

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

  • Black and white are the colours of photography.
    - Robert Frank

  • Most photographers are shy. It’s a way out.
    - Elliott Erwitt

  • You just have to live and life will give you pictures.
    - Henri Cartier-Bresson

  • A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
    Diane Arbus





  • There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.
    - Robert Frank

  • Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
    Ambrose Bierce
  • The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
    Dorothea Lange

  • If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera.
    - Lewis Hine

  • What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
    - Karl Lagerfeld

  • Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion...the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
    - Dorothea Lange

  • 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 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

  • My passport was my camera.
    - Eve Arnold

  • Be yourself. Don't copy anybody.
    - Harry Gruyaert




  • It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart, and head.
    - Henri Cartier-Bresson

  • Finding the right subject is the hardest part.
    - Mary Ellen Mark

  • Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.
    - Bruno Barbey

  • My passport was my camera.
    - Eve Arnold

  • Photography helps people to see.
    - Berenice Abbott

  • Keep it simple.
    - Alfred Eisenstaedt

  • It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.
    - Alfred Eisenstaedt

  • A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
    - Diane Arbus

  • Photography was a licence to go whenever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do.
    - Diane Arbus

  • The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera.
    - Elliott Erwitt




What are your favorite photo quotes? 



By Paul

2021-12-28 22:46:57

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