Quotes on Inspiring Photography

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

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.

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

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

Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from the snapshot to the decisive moment to multi-media montage - the intent and purpose of photography is to render in visual terms feelings and experiences that often elude the ability of words to describe. In any case, the eyes have it, and the imagination will always soar farther than was expected.

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

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

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.

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

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.

Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.