Photography Quotes

We don’t remember days, we remember moments. — Cesare Pavese

All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth. — Richard Avedon

You should never think without an image. — Aristotle

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow. — Imogen Cunningham

If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment. — Linda McCartney

Of course it’s all luck. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough. — Robert Capa

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the ‘ah-ha’. — Ernst Haas

My native language is Dutch, my second is photography. — Lieve Blanckaert

Memory does not make films, it makes photographs. — Milan Kundera, Immortality (ISBN: 0060932384 , page: 314)

Wherever there is light, one can photograph. — Alfred Stieglitz

Hoe ouder de foto, hoe jonger we eruit zien. — Johan Anthierens

The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it. — D.H. Lawrence

I’m always mentally photographing everything as practice. — Minor White

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I’d do it every time. — Robert Doisneau

Skill in photography is acquired by practice and not by purchase. — Percy W. Harris

Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like. — David Alan Harvey

My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person. — Andy Warhol

You’re first 10.000 photographs are your worst. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. — Susan Sontag

Everything exists to end in a photograph. — Susan Sontag

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. — Eudora Welty

You lose 100% of the shots you don’t take. — Wayne Gretzky

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. — Susan Sontag

A smile happens in a flash, but the memory can last a lifetime. — Unknown

Owning a camera doesn’t make you a photographer — Gabriel von Satzger

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A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. — Eudora Welty