One doesn’t have to look far to find an inspirational quote about photography. Here are more than 20 of my favorite photography quotes from famous people like Ansel Adams, Andy Warhol, and even Abraham Lincoln.

23 Famous Photography Quotes:

“It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.”
Alfred Eisenstaedt

“Photography is a love affair with life.”
Burk Uzzle

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

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

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

“Only photograph what you love.”
Tim Walker

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

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

“If your pictures are not good enough you are not close enough.”
Robert Capa

“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.”
Ansel Adams

“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.”
Robert Frank

“I don’t trust words. I trust pictures.”
Gilles Peress

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

“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”
Andy Warhol

“Photography is the story I fail to put into words.”
Destin Sparks

“I walk, I look, I see, I stop, I photograph.”
Leon Levinstein

“Photography is the beauty of life captured.”
Tara Chisolm

“I didn’t choose photography, photography chose me.”
Gerardo Suter

“It’s not the camera but who’s behind the camera.”
Anonymous

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

“I think of photography like therapy.”
Harry Gruyaert

“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely every hundredth of a second.”
Mark Riboud

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

My favorite photography quote is the last one. Eudora Alice Welty was an American short story writer and novelist who wrote about the American South. Her novel The Optimist’s Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Wikipedia

Her insight reinforces how photos preserve a moment in time so that anyone can put himself back in the moment when the photograph occurred. As a father of three, I chose the image of the mother and child to represent this quote and remind me that the little moments with my kids are the most important to capture before they are gone.

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