Photography Quotes

 “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.”

— Robert Capa

“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.”

— Annie Leibovitz

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

— Ansel Adams

“To me, photography must suggest, not insist or explain.“

— Brassaï

“Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.”

— Diane Arbus

“The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with the people you photograph.”

— Sebastião Salgado

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

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

“All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.“

— Richard Avedon

“I am at war with the obvious.”

— William Eggleston

I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment. 

— Andreas Gursky

“Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future.”

— Sally Mann

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are. 

— George Eastman

“Your picture shows the relationship between you and your subject.”

— Brian Doan 

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