Photography Quotes and Sayings

With the advent of digital photography, every body has a camera. Digital cameras have made taking pictures quite easy. However, to master the art or capture the perfect picture you need skill, patience and practice. Listed below, are some famous quotes on photography to inspire you take great pictures, and few funny quotes for you to read and enjoy.

Great Photography Quotes

• You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it. - Author Unknown
• It's weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don't even amount to a couple of hours. - James Lalropui Keivom
• When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls! - Ted Grant
• Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts. - Minor White
• There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. - Ansel Adams
• There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. - Ansel Adams
• Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn't a very interesting photograph. If it were, they would have more to say. - Author Unknown
• When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. - Ansel Adams
• The goal is not to change your subjects, but for the subject to change the photographer. - Author Unknown
• Buying a Nikon doesn't make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon owner. - Author Unknown
• I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul. - Mary Ellen Mark
• If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera. - Lewis Hine
• Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. - Ansel Adams
• I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, "This is real, too." - Wynn Bullock
• The Equipment you'll leave at home, you'll need the most. You're always out of film when you'll have the best opportunity. - Murphy's Rules
• The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. - Dorthea Lange
• To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in 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

Funny Photography Quotes

• Minolta makes the best bodies, Nikon makes the best lenses, Canon makes the best compromise. - Anonymous
• "Is that camera fully automatic?" Second Person : "No. You have to take the film to the chemist!" - Anonymous
• A definition of a professional photographer: A "pro" NEVER shows anybody the mistakes. - Anonymous
• You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory. - Author Unknown
• If an old man asks a young girl for a date...
  That's his business.
  If the young girl accepts...
  That's her business.
  If the old man and the girl decide to marry...
  That's their business.
  However, if they want great wedding photographs...
  THAT'S MY BUSINESS!!! - Anonymous
• If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph the event...what kind of film would you use? - Anonymous

I hope you enjoyed reading these sayings. And hope that the above great quotes have inspired you to look at the subjects you photograph from a new point of view.