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30+ Best Photography Quotes

Feb 2, 20223 min readParvathy Nair

Photography is an art; it's about drawing with the light, capturing moments that will never be the same again and stopping time even if it is just for a moment.


You need an ideal quote; down below, we have the top 30 photography quotes to choose from and if you are interested in nature quotes and incase you want to download Instagram photos we have that too.


So let's get into it.


Inspirational Photography Quotes


  1. "You don't take a photograph; you make it"

  2. "Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst."

  3. "A good photographer knows when ,where to stand and how."

  4. "Only photograph what you love."

  5. "Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real."

  6. "If you want to be a photographer, first leave home"

  7. "Photography is the story I fail to put into words."

  8. "Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like"

  9. "When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."

  10. "Photography is austere and blazing poetry of the real."


Photography Quotes for Instagram


  1. "Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still." – Dorothea Lange.

  2. "Every artist, I suppose, has a sense of what they think has been the importance of their work. But to ask them to define it is not a fair question. My real answer would be, the answer is on the wall."-Paul Strand.

  3. "A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to

    fall in love with these people." – Annie Leibovitz.

  4. "Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who sees" .-Paul Strand.

  5. "Great photography is about the depth of feeling, not the depth of field." – Peter Adams.

  6. Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art". Ansel' Adams

  7. "I don't trust words. I trust pictures.” – Gilles Peress

  8. "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough" .-Robert Capa

  9. "It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter." – Alfred Eisenstaedt

  10. "The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world" .-Paul Strand

  11. "Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies." – Diane Arbus

  12. "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." – Robert Capa

  13. "Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second


Short Quotes on Photography


  1. "The eye should learn to listen before it looks."

  2. "The best camera is the one that's with you."

  3. "When I photograph, I make love."

  4. "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."

  5. "When I photograph, I make love."

  6. "Photography helps people to see."

  7. "I think of photography like therapy."

  8. "A photograph is memory in the raw."

  9. "Photography is a love affair with life."

  10. "The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."


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