Photography Quotes to Spark Your Creativity
70 Inspiring and Funny Photography Quotes
Nature and landscape photography is all about capturing the beauty and magic of the natural world. It’s an art that takes skill, patience and a love for the great outdoors.
In this article, I’ve put together a list of inspiring and funny quotes from photographers and writers all over the world. So grab your camera and let’s go out and capture the magic of nature together!
Let these words of wisdom guide you as you explore and appreciate the beauty of nature.
Photography is inspired by beauty, captured with passion. ~ Destin Sparks
To the complaint, ‘There are no people in these photographs,’ I respond, ‘There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer’. ~ Ansel Adams
The thing I love about photography is that for just a moment, you can make everyone else look at the world the way you see it. ~ Amy Spalding
Nature never goes out of style ~ Unknown
If you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of more interesting stuff. ~ Jim Richardson
When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps. ~ John Lennon
Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness. ~ Yann Arthus-bertrand
I love landscape photography because it clears my thoughts and it brings light and inspiration into my mind. ~ Jan Bainar
Adopt the pace of Nature; her secret is patience. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Colours are the smiles of nature. ~ Leigh Hunt
Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs. ~ Art Wolfe
If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera ~ Lewis Hine
If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough. ~ Robert Cappa
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. ~ Dorothea Lange
Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field. ~ Peter Adams
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Which of my photographs is my favourite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow. ~ Imogen Cunningham
Why print this picture? The reason is that words are never enough. ~ Life magazine
If I have any ‘message’ worth giving to a beginner, it is that there are no shortcuts in photography. ~ Edward Weston
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. ~ Ansel Adams
A camera didn’t make a great picture any more than a typewriter wrote a great novel. ~ Peter Adams
In my photography, colour and composition are inseparable. I see in colour. ~ William Albert Allard
Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be. ~ Duane Michals
Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ‘how’, while others of a more curious nature will ask ‘why’. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information. ~ Man Ray
The camera always points both ways. In expressing your subject, you also express yourself. ~ Freeman Patterson
Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is. ~ Unknown
Our best pictures are our footprints. It’s the best way to tell people we were here. ~ Joe McNally
Photography is all about light, composition, and most importantly emotion. ~ Larry Wilder
The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words. ~ Elliott Erwitt
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. ~ Susan Meiselas
Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world. ~ Bruno Barbey
The two most engaging powers of a photographer are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. ~ William Thackeray
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change that facts. ~ Garry Winogrand
The question is not what you look at but what you see. ~ Henry Thoreau
When life gets blurry adjust your focus. When people ask what equipment I use, I tell them my eyes. ~ Ansel Adams
To photograph is to hold one’s breath when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice. ~ Robert Frank
Anyone can shoot chaos. But the most perceptive photographers can make compelling pictures out of uninteresting moments. ~ Alex Tehrani
Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera. ~ Yousuf Karsh
What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce. ~ Karl Lagerfeld
Kodak sells film, but they don’t advertise film; they advertise memories. ~ Theodore Levitt
Photography is a magical kind of art that allows people to preserve time and moments, and to describe the world the way they see it. ~ Sahara Sanders
I wish that all of nature’s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed. ~ Annie Leibovitz
You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn’t waste either. ~ Galen Rowell
All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ~ Richard Avedon
It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural which may have a meaning to the spectators. ~ Ansel Adams
The Earth is art, the photographer is only a witness. ~ Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Just put on the lens and go. ~ Miroslav Tichy
Photograph the world as it is. Nothing’s more interesting than reality. ~ Mary Ellen Mark
If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment. ~ Linda McCartney
The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer. ~ Steven Pinker
Regarding the creative: never assume you’re the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you’re masterful. ~ Don Roff
We don’t learn from our good images; we learn from the ones that can be improved on. ~ Jen Rozenbaum
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper. The photographer begins with the finished product. ~ Edward Steichen
A camera didn’t make a great picture anymore than a typewriter wrote a great novel. ~ Peter 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
I don’t trust words. I trust pictures. ~ Gilles Peress
Funny Quotes and Jokes about Photography
There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don’t have film. ~ Stephen Wright
Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures. ~ Elliott Erwitt
The quickest way to make money at photography is to sell your camera. ~ Anonymous
Why would a farmer make a good photographer? Because they know how to handle the crop!
Born to shoot. Forced to work.
If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph him… what type of film would you use?
I always thought good photos were like good jokes. If you have to explain it, it just isn’t that good.
Buy a professional camera and you’re a professional photographer, buy a flute and you own a flute. ~ Anon
Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
We all have a photographic memory; some of us are just lacking the film.
How do you make a small fortune with photography? Start with a large one.
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. ~ George Bernard Shaw
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