Inspiring Photography Quotes

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made. ~ Andy Goldsworthy

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true. ~ Jacques-Henri Lartigue

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

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world. ~ Arnold Newman

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work. ~ Martin Parr

Womanhood is a flourishing flower. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The life you want is waiting to rise up to meet you ... Will you accept it? Do you feel worthy enough to accept it? ~ Oprah Winfrey

You need beauty to be a model but not to be a role model. ~ Amit Kalantri

A lot of the photography I'm doing and thinking about is directed at Instagram. ~ Stephen Shore

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space. ~ Marilyn Monroe

Avoid openly trying to reform people. Every man knows he is imperfect, but he doesn't want someone else trying to correct his faults. If you want to improve a person, help him embrace a higher working goal-a standard, an ideal-and he will do his own 'making over' far more effectively than you can do it for him. ~ David Packard

Photographers don't take pictures. They create images. ~ Mark Denman

Great photography comes about at the right time but it also needs the right cut that enhances that precise moment ... Photography must feed on both contents and form, if it gives up the one for the other it is not going to last. ~ Augusto De Luca

People associate feminism with hate - with man hate - and that's really negative. I don't think that's what feminism is about at all - it's really positive. I think that's why women became reluctant to use the word. ~ Emma Watson

If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say 'secrets.' As a child I always had a secret world and my favorite book was A Secret Garden. ~ Joyce Tenneson

The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation. ~ Steven Cojocaru

Where it Matters
Being with you today is worth all the broken hearts of yesterday. In a flash, all of the stumbling blocks of relationships gone wrong have become the stepping stones to our perfect love.
We fit. I now understand the feeling I used to think was pain that came along with love was actually the discomfort from being in a place I didn't fit.
Thank you for being you ... for sharing your love with me ... for inspiring me to accept myself ... for helping me see the unique beauty in imperfection ... for showing me that love is something you do; something not just to be said, but also to be shown.
I am not perfect; neither are you. I love that!
Our love is perfect. And even though we may not be, our love creates a bridge that spans over our imperfections and joins us where it matters.
I love you! ~ Steve Maraboli

Be in love with the moments of your life. ~ Matthew Knisely

When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness. ~ Dale Archer

Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop. ~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like. ~ Harry Callahan

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us. ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

Here are young women with more opportunities, more liberties than almost any women in history and at that moment we tell them they're short-changed silenced victims of a patriarchy? It's defeatist and demoralising. ~ Christina Hoff Sommers

Adequate photographers use their sight, good photographers use their senses, and great photographers use their souls. ~ A.J. Compton

I told [Bill Gates] I believed every word of what I said but that I should never have said it in public. I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger. ~ Steve Jobs

When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days. ~ Ann Beattie

But I would like to reach the point where I could cut up an illustrated magazine at random and see to it that the parts would each become a painting. I cannot properly explain it right now. Already now I am searching for the most boring and irrelevant photo material that I can find. And I would like to get to the point soon where this determined irrelevance could be retained, in favor of something that would be covered up otherwise by artifice. ~ Gerhard Richter

Boys are more likely to develop a masculine personality and acquire strong moral standards when they have a loving and nurturant rather than a threatening or fear-inspiring father. ~ James Q. Wilson

The act of photography is like going on a hunt in which photographer and camera merge into one indivisible function. This is a hunt for new states of things, situations never seen before, for the improbable, for information. ~ Vilem Flusser

It is absolutely necessary ... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders. ~ George Washington

Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul. ~ Marius Vieth

Live your life, you only get one. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value ... ~ Ansel Adams

There is not a big difference between life and taking pictures ... You're in the middle of life, you're living, making love, eating, sleeping - and photography is part of it. And I don't say this because I'm being romantic. I say this because that's just the way it happens to be. ~ Anders Petersen

The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance. ~ Roland Barthes

One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise profound questions. ~ Rob Bell

Respect is that great spirit of good, which creates the beautiful space giving all souls the simple room to breathe. ~ Bryant McGill

I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.' ~ David LaChapelle

As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights ... That all significant perfect moment, so essential to capture, is often highly perishable. There may be little opportunity to probe deeper. ~ Margaret Bourke-White

Many artists, having assimilated the Conceptualists' explorations to varying degrees, have reused the painterly model and use photography, quite consciously and systematically, to produce works that stand alone and exist as photographic paintings ... ~ Jean-Francois Chevrier

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

I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world. ~ Lapo Elkann

What you want is within reach. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The Lord sustained me. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

My head is held up high, irrespective of the circumstances. If situations are to define your Self Worth, then keep nagging! ~ Somya Kedia

Love gives life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To which hand do I choose to strike with when both hands are guided by the same heart? ~ Carroll Bryant

Without hardships, how could we know hope? ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Decide what you want. Believe you can have it. Believe you deserve it and believe it's possible
for you. And then close your eyes and every day for several minutes, and visualize having what
you already want, feeling the feelings of already having it. Come out of that and focus on what
you're grateful for already, and really enjoy it. Then go into your day and release it to the
Universe and trust that the Universe will figure out how to manifest it. Jack Canfield ~ Jack Canfield

School-boy. The spectators thou regardest as on work-days they regard each other. For thee, then, it may be well to wish thyself behind a desk, over ruled ledgers, collecting tolls, and picking out reversions. Thou feelest not the co-operating, co-inspiring ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war. ~ James Nachtwey