Favorite Photography Quotes

I love quotes. To me, they provide little nuggets of wisdom. They give perspective and can encourage people to do bigger and better things with their lives. Words have the power to change the way people think and act, and can even inspire revolutions!

Here are just a few of my favorite quotes from some fellow photographers and creatives. Let me know what you think and share some of your favorite quotes in the comments!



You don't take a photograph, you make it. - Ansel Adams

I don't really remember the day when I stood behind my camera with Henry Kissinger on the other side. I am sure he doesn't remember it either. But this photograph is here now to prove that no amount of kindness on my part could make this photograph mean exactly what he.. or even I.. wanted it to mean. It's a reminder of the wonder and terror that is a photograph. - Richard Avedon

And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible. - Richard Avedon

Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick. - Henri Cartier-Bresson

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. - John Steinbeck

Buying a Nikon doesn't make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon owner. - Author Unknown

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

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are. - Ernst Haas

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be. - Edward Weston

-will

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