Inspirational photography Quotes

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot.…

— Eve Arnold

Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.

— Bruno Barbey

If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it.

— Jay Maisel

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

— Eve Arnold

There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

— Robert Heinecken

One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

— Annie Leibovitz

Photography can light-up darkness and expose ignorance.

— Lewis Hine

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

— Edward Steichen

Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

— Man Ray

Emotion or feeling is really the only thing about pictures I find interesting. Beyond that is is just a trick.

— Christopher Anderson

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…

— Bruce Gilden

I didn't choose photography. Photography chose me.

— Gerardo Suter

The camera adds a certain sheen to things. Something about being frozen in time really makes things sparkle.

— Brandon Stanton

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels.

— Ansel Adams

If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

— Garry Winogrand

Always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.

— Joe McNally

I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical.

— Trent Parke

You just have to live and life will give you pictures.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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…

— Don McCullin

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a…

— Susan Meiselas

When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!

— Ted Grant

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.

— Aaron Siskind

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

— Matt Hardy

Beauty can be seen in all things.

— Matt Hardy

Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

— Seth Godin