Street photography Quotes

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

— Aaron Siskind

Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me.

— Thomas Leuthard

“Photography is what emotions look like.”

— Jon Luvelli

Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph

— Andre Kertesz

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

— Elliott Erwitt

You don't make a photograph just with a camera

— Ansel Adams

Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it's a street photograph

— Bruce Gilden

“When I am doing photography that I feel free. I just like tell you a story every took to you.”

— Denny Wiranda

“Photography has saved me from going down, a completely different road. I can imagine if I wasn't photography, that I don't know…

— Denny Wiranda

Street Photography is like fishing. Catching the fish is more exciting than eating it.

— Thomas Leuthard

It's neither our culture nor our race which interconnects us. It's Street Photography.

— Thomas Leuthard

Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I…

— Elliott Erwitt

Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

— Garry Winogrand

Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.

— William Klein

I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and…

— Lee Friedlander

I'm really interested in street photography. Also landscapes, wildlife photography, animals, portrait photography of people, and I calibrate my photos. I don't…

— Stefanos Tsitsipas

The main thing I love about street photography is that you find the answers you don't see at the fashion shows. You…

— Bill Cunningham

I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography—that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as…

— Joel Meyerowitz

“As a photographer you have a deep love for light, life and yourself. You know that the eyes of love aren’t blind,…

— Marius Vieth

I have always felt that a lot of the most interesting work, not just mine but other people's, falls into [the] nether…

— Alex Webb

I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism…

— Barbara Kruger

I admire photographers that don't need a destination. In some ways, street photography is like that. There's a quality of wanderlust for…

— Alec Soth

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed,

— Garry Winogrand

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

— Garry Winogrand

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

— Ted Grant

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

— Steve McCurry

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

When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black & white you photograph their souls.

— Anonymous

There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson