Quotes on Inspirational Photography

No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad days, bad clients, snotty subjects, obnoxious handlers, wigged-out art directors, technical disasters, failures of the mind, body, and will, all the shouldas, couldas, and wouldas that befuddle our brains and creep into our dreams, always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.

Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera

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

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.