Photography is the art or practice of taking and processing photographs.

1. The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
Susan Sontag

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

3. The biggest cliche in photography is sunrise and sunset.
Catherine Opie

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

5. It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.
Alfred Eisenstaedt

6. Photograph give me something to remember
Anonymous

7. When you photograph a face… you photograph the soul behind it.
Jean Luc Godard

8. Photography helps people to see.
Berenice Abbott

9. 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.
Ansel Adams

10. Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
Robert Frank

11. Eyes like a shutter mind like a lens
Anonymous

12. Photography is The Memory of Our Lives
Anonymous

13. Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.
Matt Hardy

14. There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
Ansel Adams

15. I am not interested in shooting new things I am interested to see things new.
Ernst Haas

16. A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
Ansel Adams

17. Photography is not about cameras, gadgets and gismos. Photography is about photographers. A camera didn’t make a great picture any more than a typewriter wrote a great novel.
Peter Adams

18. People say photographs don't lie, mine do.
David LaChapelle

19. We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone
Anonymous

20. For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.
Diane Arbus

21. 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

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

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

24. Wherever there is light, one can photograph.
Alfred Stieglitz

25. What I most like about photography is the moment that you can't anticipate you have to be constantly watching for it, ready to welcome the unexpected.
Martine Franck

26. Life is like a camera. Focus on what's important. Capture the good times. And if things don't work out, just take another shot
Anonymous

27. Little boy with camera is shooting in the farm
Anonymous

28. Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. [It is] a major force in explaining man to man.
Edward Steichen

29. Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world
Bruno Barbey

30. Photography is the story I fail to put into words.
Destin Sparks

31. I don't shoot what it looks like i shoot what it feels like
Anonymous

32. There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
Ansel Adams

33. A camera is a SAVE button for the mind's eye.
Roger Kingston

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34. Photography is an art of observation. It has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
Elliot Erwitt

35. When i have a camera in my hand, i know no fear.
Alfred Eisenstaedt

36. Photography is about capturing souls not smiles.
Dragan Tapshanov

37. What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
Karl Lagerfeld

38. Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Dorothea Lange

39. How many photographers does it take to change a light buld1 50. Once to change the bulb, and forty-nine tosay, 'I could have done that.
Anonymous

40. When people ask me what photography equipment i use i tell them my eyes
Anonymous

41. If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.
Robert Capa

42. When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul.
Ted Grant

43. Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
Alfred Stieglitz

44. Your first 10,000 Photographs are your worst.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

45. Which of my photographs is my favorite1 The one I'm going to take tomorrow.
Imogen Cunningham

46. Life is like a camera focus on what's important capture the good times develop from the negatives if things don't work out take another shot
Anonymous

47. A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
Ansel Adams

48. Photography is truth.
Jean-Luc Godard

49. Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
Berenice Abbott

50. The eye should learn to itself before it looks.
Robert Frank

51. There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
Ernst Haas

52. I love photos because the best thing about it is that it never changes even when the person in it does.
Anonymous

53. 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

54. 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.
Joan Miro

55. Photography is like sex. You know the ending. So how can you make it interesting?
Fer Juaristi

56. Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.
David Alan Harvey

57. Photography is a love affair with life.
Burk Uzzle

58. No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. Robert Adams

59. The earth is art, the photographer is only a witness.
Anonymous

60. Photography the best cure for a bad memory.
Anonymous

61. You don't take a photograph, you make it.
Ansel Adams

62. The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.
Andre Kertesz

63. Photographs open doors into the past but they also allow a look into the future.
Sally Mann

64. I walk, I look, I see, I stop, I photograph.
Leon Levinstein

65. You don't take a photograph, you make it.
Ansel Adams