Here is a collection of inspiring quotations from famous photographers around the world. Please click on the image to know more about the photographer.
Ansel Adams - Photography Quotes from Famous Photographers There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
–  Ansel Adams
Elliott Erwitt - Photography Quotes from Famous Photographers To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting 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
Henri Cartier Bresson - Photography Quotes from Famous Photographers The photograph itself doesn’t interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
– Henri Cartier Bresson
W. Eugene Smith - Photography Quotes from Famous Photographers The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
– W. Eugene Smith
Burk Uzzle - Photography Quotes from Famous Photographers Photography is love affair with life.
– Burk Uzzle
Garry Winogrand - Photography Quotes from Famous Photographers Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
– Garry Winogrand
Man Ray - Photography Quotes from Famous Photographers Thanks to my effort in that last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
– Man Ray
Helmut Newton - Photography Quotes from Famous Photographers Look, I’m not an intellectual – I just take pictures.
– Helmut Newton
Peter Adams - Photography Quotes from Famous Photographers Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.
– Peter Adams
Ernst Haas - Photography Quotes from Famous Photographers 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
Robert Doisneau - Photography Quotes from Famous Photographers The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.
– Robert Doisneau
Dorothea Lange - Photography Quotes from Famous Photographers Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
– Dorothea Lange
Berenice Abbott - Photography Quotes from Famous Photographers Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
– Berenice Abbott
Imogen Cunningham - Photography Quotes from Famous Photographers Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.
Imogen Cunningham
William Albert Allard - Photography Quotes from Famous Photographers You’ve got to push yourself harder. You’ve got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You’ve got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.
– William Albert Allard
Rober Adams - Photography Quotes from Famous Photographers No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocked full of unexposed film.
– Rober Adams
Eudora Welty - Photography Quotes from Famous Photographers A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
– Eudora Welty
Edward Steichen - Photography Quotes from Famous Photographers Every other artist begin with a blank canvas, a piece of paper… the photographer begins with the finished product.
– Edward Steichen
Bill Brandt - Photography Quotes from Famous Photographers I am not interested in rules of conversation. Photography is not a sport.
– Bill Brandt
Yousuf Karsh - Photography Quotes from Famous Photographers Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
– Yousuf Karsh

Some more inspiring quotes

I always thought good photos were like good jokes. If you have to explain it, it just isn’t that good.
– Anonymous
If you’re photographing in color you show the color of their clothes – if you use black and white, you will show the color of their soul.
– Anonymous
Buying a Nikon doesn’t make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon owner.
– Author Unknown
Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film.
– Anonymous
A photograph is portrait painted by the sun.
– Author Unknown
One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photos out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photos out of focus are a style.
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