Inspirational Photography Quotes

Inspirational Photography Quote of the day

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images.

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 at all, yet through my images I live with them.

I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.

Only photograph what you love.

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.