30 Days of Photography
Beauty, perspective, humor and more!
Are you ready to be inspired? In this blog post, I'll be sharing 30 amazing quotes about photography that are sure to get your creative juices flowing. From famous photographers to famous artists and thinkers, these quotes offer insight into the power and magic of photography. So grab your camera, read on, and let these words inspire you to capture the beauty of the world around you.
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1. "A photograph is the pause button of life." - Unknown
2. "Photography is the 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
3. "You don't take a photograph, you make it." - Ansel Adams
4. "Photography is truth." - Jean-Luc Godard (not always)
5. "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
6. "The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera." - Dorothea Lange
7. "The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words." - Elliott Erwitt
8. "In photography, there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality." - Alfred Stieglitz
9. "What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce." - Karl Lagerfeld
10. "Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still." - Dorothea Lange
11. "Photography is the story I fail to put into words." - Destin Sparks
12. "There is a kind of photography that is coarse, and which resembles ugliness itself." - Auguste Rodin
13. "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
14. "When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence." - Ansel Adams
15. "Photography is a language more universal than words." - Minor White
16. "Life is like a camera, focus on the good times, develop from the negatives, and if things don’t work out, take another shot." - Unknown
17. "A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away." - Eudora Welty
18. "Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life." - Henri Cartier-Bresson
19. "You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved." - Ansel Adams
20. "Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera." - Yousuf Karsh
21. "Photography is an art of observation. It has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them." - Elliott Erwitt
22. "Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world." - Bruno Barbey
23. "Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second." - Marc Riboud
24. "To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things." - Ansel Adams
25. "Photography is the poetry of the eyes." - Reza
26. "I wish that all of nature’s magnificence... the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed." - Annie Leibovitz
27. "Knowing how to look is the most important part of photography. It’s about feeling and seeing." - Peter Lindbergh
28. "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
29. "Without photography, reality itself would be reduced to a mere possibility." - Susan Sontag
30. "In photography, there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated." - August Sander
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