Best Photography Quotes!

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Robert Capa by GerdaTaro
Robert Capa by GerdaTaro

Check out these famous photography quotes from famous photographers!


If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.
~ Robert Capa


Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams
S p o n s o r e d L i n k s

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


Neil Leifer
Neil Leifer

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


Henri Cartier Bresson
Henri Cartier Bresson

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



James Nachtwey
James Nachtwey

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


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