Check out these famous photography quotes from famous photographers!
If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.
~ Robert Capa
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
~Ansel Adams
Sometimes the simplest pictures are the hardest to get.
~ Neil Leifer
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
~ Dorothea Lange
Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.
~ Sam Abbel
Photography by nature is spiritual, considering it comes from the darkness to show the light.
~ Kevin Russo
Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
~Ansel Adams
To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.
~ Oscar Wilde
We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.
~ Ralph Hattersley
Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.
~ Peter Adams
The photograph itself doesn’t interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
~Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
~Ambrose Bierce
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
~ Confucius
I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.
~ James Nachtwey