What Photography Experts Said About Photography

Here’s a collection of some inspirational & popular photography quotes from world’s well-known photographers.  Read through and feel inspired.

“Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph” – Andre Kertesz

“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.” – Ansel Adams

“Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.” – Ansel Adams

“If your photos aren’t good enough, then you’re not close enough” – Robert Capa

“Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph. – Matt Hardy

“Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.” – Imogen Cunningham

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” – Ansel Adams

“I always thought good photos were like good jokes. If you have to explain it, it just isn’t that good.” – Anonymous

“The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.” – W. Eugene Smith

“Photography is the love affair with life.” – Burk Uzzle

“Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.” – Garry Winogrand

“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 can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.” – Berenice Abbott

“Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper… the photographer begins with the finished product.” – Edward Steichen

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still” – Dorothea Lange

“I like photographs which leave something to the imagination” – Fay Godwin

A photographer went to a socialite dinner 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; he said “That was a wonderful dinner, you must have a terrific stove”. – Sam Haskiins.