23 Most Famous & Inspirational Photography Quotes

23 Famous Photography Quotes:

Alfred Eisenstaedt

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

Burk Uzzle

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

Ansel Adams

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

Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

Ansel Adams

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

Tim Walker

“Only photograph what you love.”
Tim Walker

Abraham Lincoln

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

Ansel Adams

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

Robert Capa

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

Ansel Adams

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

Robert Frank

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

Gilles Peress

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

David Alan Harvey

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

Andy Warhol

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

Destin Sparks

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

Leon Levinstein

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

Tara Chisolm

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

Gerardo Suter

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

Anonymous

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

Roger Kingston

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

Harry Gruyaert

“I think of photography like therapy.”
Harry Gruyaert

Marc Riboud

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

Eudora Welty

“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.