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Inspirational photography quotes don’t just act as embellishments for trendy, viral Instagram posts. These pearls of wisdom can even fuel a sea of creativity and a profound understanding of the art of photography. Whether you are a budding photographer or a seasoned professional, this awe-inspiring list of quotes about photography from noted photographers - and every little detail that makes up an image - could help you relate to similar experiences that other photographers might have had. From raw human emotions and technical nitty-gritty to scenes and settings that form part and parcel of the process of creating photographs, every little aspect finds resonance in this compilation of quotes we have put together for you. While words don’t make a photograph, we’ll let words do all the talking for once! Sit back and read on as these quotes work their magic on you.

Is A Picture Truly Worth A Thousand Words?

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Do images truly express as much as words do - or even more? Why do some pictures evoke strong emotions within us or strike a chord deep within? You may or may not have answers to such questions. But what you have here is a well-curated list of words of wisdom or witty one-liners from photographers who have wowed us with their stellar images. This is a collection of famous photography quotes on their observations about their art, passion, and profession.

We are a photo editing company that provides editing services for professional wedding photographers, and that means we work with a lot of amazing pro wedding photographers. And we’ve been following wedding photographers, portrait photographers, boudoir photographers, lifestyle photographers, and influencers very closely for years, collecting words of advice we can pass on to inspire, educate, and motivate the entire community of photographers we collaborate with. While some of these quotes might reiterate how inspiring the art of photography could be for both the photographer and the viewer, others might take you back to a moment you had probably experienced as a photographer. And yes, coming back to what we began with, you could always take your pick of caption from this compilation of quotes for a well-curated social media feed. From inspirational to funny, we have one for every mood!

Famous Photography Quotes

From what photography means to them to what makes for a good photo, these famous quotes from top photographers delve into a plethora of topics, and reading these pearls of prudence from these notable photography leaders could be truly rewarding. Because at times just a single line could beautifully convey the crux of what photography is. So, here you go!

1. “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”
   – Ansel Adams
   
   
2. “A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.”
   – Annie Leibovitz
   
   
3. “Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.”
   – Peter Adams
   
   
4. “I don’t trust words. I trust pictures.”
   – Gilles Peress
   
   
5. “It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.”
   – Alfred Eisenstaedt
   
   
6. “Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.”
   – Diane Arbus
   
   
7. “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.”
   – Robert Capa
   
   
8. “Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”
   – Marc Riboud
   
   
9. “Your first 1,000 photographs are your worst.”
   – Henri Cartier-Bresson
   
   
10. “The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”
    – Andy Warhol
    
    
11. “Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”
    – Dorothea Lange
    
    
12. “There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.”
    – Ansel Adams
    
    
13. “Photography helps people to see.”
    – Berenice Abbott
    
    
14. “What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
    – Karl Lagerfeld
    
    
15. “When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.”
    – Alfred Eisenstaedt

Pro Wedding Photographer Quotes

There are quotes - and then there are slice-of-life quotes. Here we bring you a bunch of photography quotes that you may relate to, especially the ones that discuss real-life scenarios or situations that you may have faced on the job as a photographer. Whether it is a tough lighting scenario or having a hard time getting a subject to pose correctly, in all likelihood these professional photographers have been there and seen it all. Some of these quotes could be ideal for photographers who are just starting out or even those who have learned along the way what they could have done differently in their first years. Listed below is a compilation of all such scenarios.

16. “How do we start taking pictures of people, and stop taking pictures of poses?”
    – Justin and Mary Marantz
    
    
17. “Circumstantial light considers not only all the properties and behaviors of natural light, but also how that light interacts with the objects around , so that it can transform those objects into light-shaping tools.” He has more to say! Click here for his Ask Anything Q&A.
    – Roberto Valenzuela
    
    
18. “The people who hire me as a wedding photographer hire me not just because of my photographic style, they hire me because of the style of my personality. My style and personality match, so they know they’re getting a genuine style.”
    – Jared Platt
    
    
19. “You need to use when you have to, such as when it’s raining. Or, when you just feel like it. Sometimes you wear it because you need to get the sun out of your eyes. Think about flash in the same way. Don’t use it all the time, but also don’t shy away from it. If it’s dark outside, use flash. If you know there’s time, and you have a good idea, and your clients will love it, then go for it.”
    – Matt Kennedy
    
    
20. “When you acquire an understanding of the science behind light and what governs it, then you can predict its behavior and control the lighting in photographs.”
    – Roberto Valenzuela
    
    
21. “With creating, we are literally bringing something into existence that didn’t exist before.”
    – Montana Dennis
    
    
22. “I believe photographers should shoot what they want, not shoot what they get.”
    – Roberto Valenzuela
    
    
23. “Wherever the center of the light source is, you want that to be a little bit above the center of the couple’s eyes - something magical happens when you do this.”
    – Zach and Jody Gray

Funny Photography Quotes

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Your job as a wedding photographer puts you in all kinds of situations - at times funny and amusing, at other times a tight spot. And many of you might look for humor even in stressful situations for some quick comic relief. Because a hearty laugh could be a great stressbuster! So, here are some of the best quotes that could put a smile on your face.

24. “A photographer went to a socialite party in New York. As he entered the front door, the host said, ‘I love your pictures - they’re wonderful; you must have a fantastic camera.’ He said nothing until dinner was finished, then: ‘That was a wonderful dinner; you must have a terrific stove.”
    – Sam Haskins
    
    
25. “Gosh, my job is so easy! I just click a button all day… said no photographer ever.” Are you struggling with time management? Do you have too many things on your plate demanding your attention? Give outsourcing a try!
    
    
26. “You might be a photographer if… Your eyesight from staring at the computer has gone from F11 to F1.8.”
    – Naman Pokarna’s Photography
    
    
27. “Today, I am going to shoot someone… and they will love me for it!”
    – Unknown

 BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES

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Black and white images are often held as classic expressions of timeless moments, and these evergreen photography quotes celebrate the eternal appeal of black and white photos.

28. “Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.”
    – Robert Frank
    
    
29. “There’s something strange and powerful about black and white imagery.”
    – Stefan Kanfer
    
    
30. “Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there’s always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.”
    – Jack Lowden
    
    
31. “When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls!”
    – Ted Grant

Nature Photography Quotes

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There are many quotes about photography that celebrate the true essence of nature’s bounty. And you could always draw inspiration from them while creating the photograph of your imagination. Imagine the blue skies, the lush greenery, and the natural light of the sun adding their charm to your images. This is especially true when it comes to outdoor wedding photography sessions or shoots. Take a look at these quotes that drew inspiration from nature.

32. “I wish that all of nature’s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.”
    – Annie Leibovitz
    
    
33. “The earth is art, the photographer is only a witness.”
    – Yann Arthus-Bertrand
    
    
34. “Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.”
    – Ambrose Bierce
    
    
35. “Wherever there is light, one can photograph.”
    – Alfred Stieglitz

Inspirational Photography Quotes

There are several inspirational quotes by remarkable photographers that could motivate you to excel in your craft. Below, we share some of those quotes about photography with you.

36. “Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.”
    – Bill Brandt
    
    
37. “The pictures are there, and you just take them.”
    – Robert Capa
    
    
38. “The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?”
    – Edward Weston
    
    
39. “The camera makes you forget you’re there. It’s not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.”
    – Annie Leibovitz
    
    
40. “Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.”
    – Martin Parr
    
    
41. “A photograph is like a recipe - memory the finished dish.”
    – Carrie Latet
    
    
42. “In photography, there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.”
    – August Sander
    
    
43. “The two most engaging powers of a photograph are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.”
    – William Thackeray
    
    
44. “The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.”
    – Anne Geddes
    
    
45. “For me, documentary photography has always come with great responsibility. Not just to tell the story honestly and with empathy, but also to make sure the right people hear it. When you photograph somebody who is in pain or discomfort, they trust you to make sure the images will act as their advocate.”
    – Giles Duley
    
    
46. “You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.”
    – Joan Miro
    
    
47. “While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.”
    – Dorothea Lange
    
    
48. “Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.”
    – Joe McNally
    
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49. “All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”
    – Richard Avedon
    
    
50. “When people ask me what equipment I use - I tell them my eyes.”
    – Anonymous
    
    
51. “I’ve always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.”
    – James Balog
    
    
52. “I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.”
    – Diane Arbus
    
    
53. “Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.”
    – Jacques-Henri Lartigue
    
    
54. “I think good dreaming is what leads to good photographs.”
    – Wayne Miller
    
    
55. “To me, the magic of photography, per se, is that you can capture an instant of a second that couldn’t exist before and couldn’t exist after. It’s almost like a cowboy that draws his gun. You draw a second before or after, you miss and you’re dead – not them. To me, photography’s always like that.”
    – Mario Testin
    
    
56. “Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.”
    – Garry Winogrand
    
    
57. “Results are uncertain even among the more experienced photographers.”
    – Matthew Brady
    
    
58. “In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.”
    – James Wilson
    
    
59. “If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera.”
    – Lewis Hine

More Inspirational Quotes

60. “Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future.”
    – Sally Mann
    
    
61. “Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”
    – Susan Sontag
    
    
62. “Once photography enters your bloodstream, it is like a disease.”
    – Anonymous
    
    
63. “A camera is a SAVE button for the mind’s eye.”
    – Roger Kingston
    
    
64. “Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.”
    – Ben Shahn
    
    
65. “Kodak sells film, but they don’t advertise film; they advertise memories.”
    – Theodore Levitt
    
    
66. “When I photograph, what I’m really doing is seeking answers to things.”
    – Wynn Bullock
    
    
67. “We don’t learn from our good images; we learn from the ones that can be improved on.”
    – Jen Rozenbaum
    
    
68. “If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.”
    – Linda McCartney
    
    
69. “There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”
    – Ansel Adams
    
    
70. “It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.”
    – David Bailey
    
    
71. “I didn’t choose photography, photography chose me.”
    – Gerardo Suter
    
    
72. “Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.”
    – Imogen Cunningham
    
    
73. “There’s a time when people say your work is revolutionary, but you have to keep being revolutionary. I can’t keep shooting pop stars all my life. You have to keep changing, keep pushing yourself, looking for the new, the unusual.”
    – Rankin
    
    
74. “Photography is not about cameras, gadgets and gizmos. Photography is about photographers. A camera didn’t make a great picture any more than a typewriter wrote a great novel.”
    – Peter Adams
    
    
75. “The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can’t be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.”
    – Eliot Porter
    
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76. “To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
    – Elliott Erwitt
    
    
77. “My interest in photography is not to capture an image I see or even have in my mind, but to explore the potential of moments I can only begin to imagine.”
    – Lois Greenfield
    
    
78. “The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.”
    – Orson Welles
    
    
79. “Contrast is what makes photography interesting.”
    – Conrad Hall
    
    
80. “It’s about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It’s simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what’s around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.”
    – Elliott Erwitt
    
    
81. “Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.”
    – Paul Strand
    
    
82. “Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.”
    – Andy Goldsworthy
    
    
83. “We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.”
    – Ralph Hattersley
    
    
84. “The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.”
    – Robert Mapplethorpe
    
    
85. “There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.”
    – Robert Frank
    
    
86. “I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.”
    – Galen Rowell
    
    
87. “Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.”
    – Sebastian Smee
    
    
88. “I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in.”
    – Steve McCurry
    
    
89. “I think of photography like therapy.”
    – Harry Gruyaert

Thought-Provoking Photography Quotes

There are images that could draw your attention, make you pause for a while, and compel you to contemplate what the pictures are trying to convey. These quotes pay a tribute to such images.

90. “A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.”
    – Irving Penn
    
    
91. “Photography has nothing to do with cameras.”
    – Lucas Gentry
    
    
92. “Essentially what photography is is life lit up.”
    – Sam Abell
    
    
93. “Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.” Do you find yourself struggling to make wedding photography work? Learn when and how to grow your wedding photography business here.
    – Martin Parr
    
    
94. “You cannot possibly hit the shutter without leaving a piece of you in the image.”
    – Joe Buissink
    
    
95. “Photography is my passion. Whenever I get time, I click.”
    – Shaheer Sheikh
    
    
96. “The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
    – Dorothea Lange
    
    
97. “I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, ‘Oh! Will you look at that?’ Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don’t look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.”
    – Harold Feinstein
    
    
98. “Skill in photography is acquired by practice and not by purchase.”
    – Percy W. Harris
    
    
99. “One doesn’t stop seeing. One doesn’t stop framing. It doesn’t turn off and on. It’s on all the time.”
    – Annie Leibovitz
    
    
100. “Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.”
     – Peter Lindbergh
     
     
101. “When you photograph a face… you photograph the soul behind it.”
     – Jean-Luc Godard
     
     
102. “Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.” Are you struggling with lighting? Refer to our guide on photography lighting basics for any location.
     – George Eastman
     
     
103. “In photography, there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”
     – Alfred Stieglitz
     
     
104. “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
     
     
105. “A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.”
     – Eudora Welty
     
     
106. “Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.”
     – Henri Cartier-Bresson
     
     
107. “It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.”
     – Paul Caponigro

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108. “If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.”
     – Eve Arnold
     
     
109. “When a moment in front of me appears to be particularly special, whether it be by beauty or experience, I capture it. I usually find a reason to justify taking that photo - symmetry, or color, or contrast - and it’s my hope that my photography sheds light onto what I see and do on a daily basis.”
     – Connor Franta
     
     
110. “Whatever situations you’re in, you have to find a way to rock it.”
     – Mary Marantz
     
     
111. “Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.”
     – David Alan Harvey
     
     
112. “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.”
     – Diane Arbus
     
     
113. “Perception isn’t reality, it’s the only reality.”
     – Amy and Jordan Demos
     
     
114. “You’ve got to push yourself harder. You’ve got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You’ve got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.”
     – William Albert Allard
     
     
115. “Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it’s good to capture people when they are themselves.”
     – Patrick Demarchelier
     
     
116. “Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.”
     – Ansel Adams
     
     
117. “Fear is the thing that prohibits a lot of photographers from reaching their full potential.” Are you afraid of diving in? Or are you afraid because you don’t have time to do everything? Outsourcing might help!
     – Collin Pierson
     
     
118. “I love the people I photograph. I mean, they’re my friends. I’ve never met most of them or I don’t know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.”
     – Bruce Gilden
     
     
119. “When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I’d like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.”
     – Annie Leibovitz
     
     
120. “No place is boring if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and a pocket full of unexposed film.”
     – Robert Adams
     
     
121. “Clients love pictures where they’re laughing versus just smiling. That’s because there’s emotion behind it. Because you’re capturing energy, not just a still image.”
     – Jen Rozenbaum
     
     
122. “A photograph is memory in the raw.”
     – Carrie Latet

SOME OF OUR FAVORITE PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES

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123. “Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”
     – Aaron Siskind
     
     
124. “I threw myself into this artform because photography had given me a new sense of mission and identity.”
     – Bob Anderson
     
     
125. “The eye should learn to listen before it looks.”
     – Robert Frank
     
     
126. “If you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of more interesting stuff.”
     – Jim Richardson
     
     
127. “Photography is about capturing souls not smiles.”
     – Dragan Tapshanov
     
     
128. “Spend more time working on posing, expressions, and creating energy between the couple and you - they need to feel the energy that makes them react. Remember, reaction is part of the pose.” Here’s our tips on posing with  confidence.
     – Roberto Valenzuela
     
     
129. “I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.”
     – Ellen Von Unwerth
     
     
130. “Photography is the story I fail to put into words.”
     – Destin Sparks
     
     
131. “It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.”
     – Paul Strand
     
     
132. “The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.”
     – Steven Pinker
     
     
133. “Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.”
     – W. Eugene Smith
     
     
134. “Only photograph what you love.”
     – Tim Walker

135. “What makes a photograph a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.”
     – John Berger
     
     
136. “Photography is a love affair with life.”
     – Burk Uzzle
     
     
137. “My photography is the result of being there at the right moment.”
     – Rene Burri
     
     
138. “The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.”
     – Scott Lorenzo
     
     
139. “The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.”
     – Susan Meiselas
     
     
140. “Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.”
     – Tony Benn
     
     
141. “There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.”
     – Robert Heinecken
     
     
142. “Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.”
     – Berenice Abbott
     
     
143. “Photography is truth.”
     – Jean-Luc Godard
     
     
144. “Photography is the beauty of life captured.”
     – Tara Chisolm
     
     
145. “Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past.”
     – David DuChemin
     
     
146. “I am not interested in shooting new things – I am interested to see things new.”
     – Ernst Haas
     
     
147. “The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.”
     – Elliott Erwitt
     
     
148. “I feel more like a creative artist using photography because there’s – the digital work is so interesting now. It’s come to that. I have had many different stages of photography - there are many different ways to take photos. But I feel now I’m in that stage of my life where I use the camera, you know, in that way.”
     – Annie Leibovitz
     
     
149. “Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.”
     – Yousuf Karsh
     
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150. “Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.”
     – Matt Hardy
     
     
151. “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
     – Ansel Adams
     
     
152. “I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.”
     – Diane Arbus
     
     
153. “I think that emotional content is an image’s most important element, regardless of the photographic technique. Much of the work I see these days lacks the emotional impact to draw a reaction from viewers, or remain in their hearts.”
     – Anne Geddes
     
     
154. “When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.”
     – Robert Frank
     
     
155. “Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.”
     – Yousuf Karsh 

156. “The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.”
     – Gordon Parks
     
     
157. “To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.”
     – Henri Cartier-Bresson
     
     
158. “My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.”
     – Steve McCurry
     
     
159. “I walk, I look, I see, I stop, I photograph.”
     – Leon Levinstein
     
     
     
     
160. “Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.”
     – Steven Pinker
     
     
161. “To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.”
     – Edward Weston
     
     
162. “Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.”
     – Paul Strand
     
     
163. “Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.”
     – Don McCullin
     
     
164. “Why do we use flash at all? Because photography is not the same as eyesight. We can see in low-light situations where cameras, dependent upon a physical process to record visual information, are half-blind.”
     – David Hewson
     
     
165. “A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.”
     – Edward Steichen

While images have the power to convey a plethora of emotions, learning what noted photographers and gifted artists think about the art of photography could help you understand your craft better. And the next time you aim your camera at your subject, these lines and photography quotes could offer you a new perspective to look at them. Or, you could just read them in leisure and ponder on the lines quoted above to draw inspiration from. We hope you enjoyed reading these quotable quotes that we put together for you. If you have your own words of wisdom or know of more such photography-related quotes, let us know in the comments below!

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