Friday, 15 July 2016

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But I wonder, what else do “they” say? In order to find out, I’ve culled together the best quotes on the subject of photography and put some of my photography collections inspired by my smartphone. I hope they inspire you.

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
— Ansel Adams
“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”
— Alfred Stieglitz

“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.”
— Robert Frank
“Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.”
— Anonymous
“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”
— Aaron Siskind
“We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.”
— Ralph Hattersley

“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.”
— Annie Leibovitz
“You don’t take a photograph. You ask quietly to borrow it.”
— Unknown


“Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.”
— Don McCullin


“A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.”
— Edward Steichen

“It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.”
— Paul Caponigro

“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
— Elliott Erwitt
  

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

“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”
— Andy Warhol

“The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.”
— Scott Lorenzo


“If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it’s already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.”
— Eve Arnold

 “Photography is the story I fail to put into words.”
— Destin Sparks

“A tear contains an ocean. A photographer is aware of the tiny moments in a persons life that reveal greater truths.”
— Anonymous


 “It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.”
— Alfred Eisenstaedt
“Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.”
— Peter Adams