Inspirational Photography Quotes

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear. ~ Alfred Eisenstaedt

If it can happen in your mind, it can happen in your camera ~ Arno Rafael Minkkinen

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

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life ~ Donna Tartt

Today everything exists to end in a photograph. ~ Susan Sontag

If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment. ~ Linda McCartney

I see myself through others eyes and I am made anew. ~ Molly Moore

The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much. ~ Annie Leibovitz

Photographs allow for connections to be made and for time to pause to appreciate all the world has to offer. ~ Dustin Thibideau

Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images. ~ Helen Levitt

I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a document of that performance. ~ Alec Soth

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

Photography is a language more universal than words. ~ Minor White

Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter. ~ Ansel Adams

Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner ... ? ~ Francesca Woodman

I didn't choose photography. Photography chose me. ~ Gerardo Suter

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

Emotion or feeling is really the only thing about pictures I find interesting. Beyond that is is just a trick. ~ Christopher Anderson

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 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

I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are. ~ Ellen Von Unwerth

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. ~ George Bernard Shaw

A photograph is a biography of a moment. ~ Art Shay

Sometimes it is our mistakes that make us the best among men in the world. if we listen to the voices of the world, they speak not to degrade us but to encourage us to overcome that which we have been ultimately blessed with ... for what more could we lose if we never choose to overcome anything? I tell you that you are dead if you are foolish enough to not try. ~ Danish Sayanee

Digital [photography] has sped up the process to a point that it's a bit self-destructive. It is like driving by a new neighborhood without stopping for a walk. Special discoveries need time. ~ Mona Kuhn

The greatest problem solvers are not necessarily the smartest people but the ones who are willing to stick to the problems until they find a breakthrough. Grit and persistence can make all the difference! ~ Simerjeet Singh

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them. ~ Cato The Elder

You can't undo the past, but you can remedy it by creating a better future. ~ A.D. Posey

You are brighter than the sun, prettier than a fresh flower, and sweeter than any chocolate. Your songs are always humming in my heart. I wish you a sweet sweetest day. ~ Debasish Mridha

Worry less, pray more. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I work out for my head as much as I do for my body. I'm a thinker. A lot of my ideas come to me more easily when I am running. That is why I like to run in the morning, when there are no distractions ... Now some of my best ideas are born on the run. ~ Grete Waitz

What I stand for is what I stand on. ~ Wendell Berry

I want to speak to the dream in your heart. That dream that has taken a backseat as you have strived to live up to something different. ~ Suzette R. Hinton

Photoghraphic projects can be as short as an afternoon or as long as a lifetime. ~ George Barr

In my 35 years in business I have always trusted my emotions. I have always believed that by touching emotion you get the best people to work with you, the best clients to inspire you, the best partners and most devoted customers. ~ Kevin Roberts

Problems in your life are like the weights in the gym. You can either get weighed down by them or turn them to your advantage and become stronger. ~ Toffee

Their time of talking and belittling us this way has expired. They tried, but they failed to realize we are strong and we will never give up.
Their time of thinking they can touch us inappropriately and we will keep quiet has expired. No! We will rise up and bring the world to its feet. Trust me… We will be seen and heard!
Their time of trying to break us down has expired. No! We can move mountains!
Their time of pointing their fingers at us and putting F.E.A.R (False Evidence Appearing Real) into our minds by making us believe it is our fault has expired. No! It is not our fault. It never was!
Their time of nasty insults has expired. They fail to realize we catch every nasty word and throw back the insult to show we can give as good as we get.
Their time of preying off vulnerable women who have to "make a deal" to get a higher position they earned has expired. No! Your "man"ipulation has no effect. We, as women, have full ownership of our minds, bodies, and souls. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

Life is mostly froth and bubble ~ Adam Lindsay Gordon

Love will always keep your heart warm. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts. ~ Phil Jackson

Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted. ~ Joseph Campbell

Rage is the opposite of thought, whoever has put you in this frame of mind has more control over you right now, than you have over yourself. If he is your opponent and you will face him today, you will be defeated. ~ Sister Souljah

In my mother's house there is still God."
Act 1, Scene 1 ~ A Raisin in the Sun ~ Lorraine Hansberry

You know what they say, if you make atleast one friend on your first day you're doing okay ~ Stephen Chbosky

Forgiveness with kindness is the best revenge. ~ Debasish Mridha

Love is the only reality, everything else is secondary. ~ Debasish Mridha

Silence is a language not all people understand. ~ Abdel Halim Boudekhana

Believing is nothing other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God, and in this way, in silence, hearing the Word, seeing love. ~ Pope Benedict XVI

I do not know how much they see through the Mist. I doubt it would matter to them if they knew the truth. Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters. ~ Rick Riordan

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

I was scared of living a life not worth the living. Why did I deserve to live when my sister had died? I was responsible now for two lives, my sister's and my own, and, damn, I'd better live well. ~ Nina Sankovitch

The print was an old one made from a negative taken in the 1960's of her parents in Sydney Mines, dancing with thrilled, excited expressions on their faces, in front of a classic car that had been a wedding gift at the time. Her mother's hair, red back then, was held back by a blue handkerchief, and she was dressed in a billowing skirt and white blouse. Her father's denim jeans and faded t-shirt were streaked with coal dust as he held her hands and spun her around in the front yard of their old clapboard house, yellow grass under their feet and a cobalt-blue sky with white clouds drifting above. Mandy could almost feel the late summer breeze as she gazed deeply into the print, watching the flamboyant colors come to life. She hung it up to dry on two wooden clothespins hanging from a string above her. ~ Rebecca McNutt

Never try to be the passenger of life. Be the driver and enjoy the ride. ~ Debasish Mridha

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Every time you help someone to achieve success, you become more successful. Always help to lift the burdens of others. ~ Debasish Mridha

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. ~ Bill Gates

If you suffer for your writing, don't forget to write about your suffering. ~ Alice Blanchard

When you forgive everyone, you have no one to fight. ~ Debasish Mridha

Worship is an endeavor to bring to God that which costs you something. ~ David Jeremiah

The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky ... I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it's not just divinely assigned. ~ Michael J. Fox

I love rain. I love the sound of it falling on an umbrella, each drop that hits the cloth a soothing sound. Everything is so fresh and clean. It always feels as if each drop is helping to wash away the hurt, the pain, the dirt that life leaves behind. As if the mere act of it falling can give life a rebirth, a second chance. ~ Brandi M. Polier

The flaw isn't in the plan; it's in our own weakness. The plan offers such promise! ~ Chris Stewart

And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop. ~ A.A. Milne

The simplest answer is to act. ~ A.S. King

To improve someone's life, don't reprimand but find the opportunity to appreciate and encourage. ~ Debasish Mridha

You don't always have to say what's on your mind. You can keep it to yourself for the time being. That's called patience. ~ Art Hochberg

Untold stories have the power to shatter worlds made of glass. ~ Vanshika Prusty

You are afraid to let anyone in, but you still leave the door open, hoping someone good will shut the door behind him and throw away the keys. ~ Jenim Dibie

All along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby. ~ David Hockney