With these 62 quotes on photography, I'd like to present a collection of my favourite photography quotes today.

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1. A good photograph is one that you look at for longer than a second. – Henri Cartier-Bresson
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2. Digital photography lets us not only capture memories, but also create them. – James Wayner
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3. I don't like landscapes. Only people and plastic flowers. – Elliott Erwitt
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4. Anyone who can see can also photograph. Learning to see, however, can take a long time. – Leica advertising slogan
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5. There are always two people involved in a picture: the photographer and the viewer. A photo is usually only looked at — rarely does anyone look into it. Twelve good photos in one year is a good crop. – Ansel Adams
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6. Even in the early days, when the photographer measured the exposure time himself, when the developer was meticulously mixed in the darkroom to achieve particular effects, things were being manipulated. In fact, every photo is a forgery from A to Z. A wholly objective, unmanipulated photo is practically impossible. In the end it remains purely a matter of degree and skill. – Edward Steichen
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7. I'd retouch my whole life. – Dusty Springfield
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8. Anyone can snap a picture. So can a machine. But not everyone can observe. Photography is art only insofar as it draws on the art of observing. Observing is an elementally poetic act. Reality, too, must be shaped if you want to make it speak. – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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9. Photographing is more than pressing the shutter. – Bettina Rheims
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10. I want to make visible something that is no longer present to the masses. – Author unknown
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11. Photographing takes time. Anyone who has no time can always just snap. – Author unknown
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12. Living photography brings the new into being; it never destroys. It proclaims the dignity of the human being. Living photography is positive from its very beginnings; it sings a song of praise to life. – Berenice Abbott
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13. Photography is my second language. – Gary Kapluggin
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14. I give the moment duration. – Manuel Álvarez Bravo
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15. The amateur worries about the right equipment, the professional worries about money, and the master worries about light. – Georg IR B.
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16. Never photograph anything that doesn't interest you! – Lisette Model
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17. Photographing is a way of shouting, of freeing yourself … It's a way of living. – Henri Cartier-Bresson
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18. Photographing nature is first-hand experience. – Fritz Pölking
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19. A photo no longer tells the truth. It only suggests a possibility. – Photokina 2000
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20. Make visible what, perhaps, without you would never have been perceived. – Robert Bresson
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21. Anyone who, as a beginner, ignores the compositional rules of photography has no sense. But anyone who clings to them for a whole photographic lifetime has no imagination. – Detlev Motz
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22. You have to hurry if you want to see something; everything disappears. – Paul Cézanne
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23. To make visible the essence of a person at the moment of the shot is the highest art of photography. – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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24. A picture gives us the feeling of holding the whole world in our hands. Photos are documents of the moment, of life, of history. Photography turns the world into an eternally enduring offer — to flee from reality into the realm of fantasy, from pain into joy, through the window of the soul, the eye. – Mario Cohen
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25. Art has nothing to do with taste. – Max Ernst
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26. Sure, the equipment was expensive and it doesn't make me take better pictures. But I now get more pleasure out of my bad pictures. – Heiko Kanzler
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27. Critics are good friends who point out our mistakes. – Benjamin Franklin
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28. Those who photograph get more out of life. – Advertising copy.
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29. It's no more a coincidence that a photographer becomes a photographer than it's a coincidence that a lion tamer becomes a lion tamer. Dorothea Lange
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30. Photography teaches that how well you see has nothing to do with how good your eyesight is. – Author unknown
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31. There's nothing worse than a brilliant image of a poor concept. – Ansel Adams
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32. The equipment we use plays only a small part. What matters far more is mastering it. – Sam Abell
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33. Words and pictures communicate far more powerfully together than alone. – William Albert Allard
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34. Talent is more important than technique. – Andreas Feininger
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35. Being ready is a lot, being able to wait is more, but seizing the right moment is everything. – Arthur Schnitzler
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36. Make visible what, perhaps, without you would never have been perceived. – Robert Bresson
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37. To make visible the essence of a person at the moment of the shot is the highest art of photography. – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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38. ‍A photo is usually only looked at — rarely does anyone look into it. – Ansel Adams
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39. ‍A good photograph is one that you look at for longer than a second. – Henri Cartier-Bresson
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40. ‍There's only one rule in photography: never develop a film in chicken soup. – Freeman Patterson
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41. ‍There are many photos full of life that are nonetheless hard to remember. What matters is the impact. – Brassaï
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42. ‍Twelve good photos in one year is a good crop.– Ansel Adams
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43. ‍Living photography brings the new into being; it never destroys. It proclaims the dignity of the human being. Living photography is positive from its very beginnings; it sings a song of praise to life. – Berenice Abbott
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44. ‍In poor light or with unphotogenic subjects, it's an art NOT to press the shutter. – Andreas Feininger
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45. ‍The photographer's main instrument is his eyes. As crazy as it seems, many photographers choose to see with the eyes of other photographers — past or present. Those photographers are blind. – Manuel Álvarez Bravo
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46. ‍Of course it's always luck. – Henri Cartier-Bresson
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47. ‍Photography is the mortal enemy of painting; it's the refuge of all failed painters, of the untalented and the lazy. – Charles Baudelaire
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48. ‍Anyone who can see can also photograph. Learning to see, however, can take time.– Leica
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49. ‍The fact that a shot which is technically flawed in the conventional sense can be more effective emotionally than a technically flawless image will come as a shock to those naïve enough to believe that technical perfection is what makes a photo truly valuable. – Andreas Feininger
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50. ‍The first 10,000 shots are the worst. – Helmut Newton
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51. ‍In my view, you can't claim to have seen something until you've photographed it. – Émile Zola
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52. ‍If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug a camera around. – Lewis Hine
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53. Never photograph anything that doesn't interest you. – Lisette Model
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54. ‍If your pictures aren't good enough, you weren't close enough. – Robert Capa
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55. ‍Digital photography lets us not only capture memories, but also create them. – James Wayner
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56. ‍Anyone who, as a beginner, ignores the compositional rules of photography has no sense. But anyone who clings to them for a whole photographic lifetime has no imagination. – Detlev Motz
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57. The aperture of a camera and the pupil aren't there to let information in, but to filter it out. – K. C. Cole
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58. ‍I've never taken a photo the way I intended to. They're always worse, or better. – Diane Arbus
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59. ‍In any case, people worry too much about photographic technique and too little about seeing. – Henri Cartier-Bresson
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60. ‍The equipment we use plays only a small part. What matters far more is mastering it. – Sam Abell
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61. ‍A nude is good when the model can show it round at grandma's birthday at the coffee table and everyone present thinks it's good. – Günter Rinnhofer
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62. ‍…there are no bad photos, only different tastes. Because the photo comes into being in an instant, an instant that isn't important. Learn the moment and draw with light and shadow. – Curt Wolf‍

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