Best Photography Quotes

“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”

Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Nothing happens when you sit at home.
I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times…
I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.”

Elliott Erwitt

“If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me,
I would do something to shake it up.”

Garry Winogrand

“Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.”

Ansel Adams (Ansel Adams on Artsy)

“It can be a trap of the photographer to think that his or
her best pictures were the ones that were hardest to get.”

Timothy Allen

“No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep
and have a pocket full of unexposed film.”

Robert Adams

“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 colour you photograph their clothes.
But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls!”

Ted Grant

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

Ansel Adams (Ansel Adams on Artsy)

“I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation,
I don’t find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.”

William Albert Allard

“My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.”

Richard Avedon

“Buying a Nikon doesn’t make you a photographer.  It makes you a Nikon owner.”

Author Unknown

“One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation,
one hundred photo out of focus are a style.”

Author Unknown

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