As they say about music one can never know everything about Photography not even the best of the photographer knows everything about photography! That explains how vast this field is. The more you photograph the more you learn about your equipment, about yourself, about the light and more importantly about the world you photograph. Last time we had collected the best design quotes and one of our readers requested for photography quotes too. I’m leading with my own quote, “There is a little photography devil inside us all”. Below are some amazing quotes from famous photographers, do comment/ share and tell us your favorite.

“The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it.”~Ansel Adams

“When people ask what equipment I use – I tell them my eyes.”~Anonymous

“Once photography enters your bloodstream, it’s like a disease.”~Anonymous

“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.”~Diane Arbus

“Never forget that all the great photographs in history were made with more primitive camera equipment than you currently own.”~Brooks Jensen

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”~Ansel Adams

“A camera has interesting ideas of its own.”~John Szarkowski

“Sometimes the simplest pictures are the hardest to get.”~Neil Leifer

“Great photography is about depth of feeling,not depth of field.”~Peter Adams

“A camera is a save button for the mind’s eye.”~Roger Kingston

“Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the ‘ah-ha’.”~Ernst Haas

“If you take pictures does that make you an art thief? ~Bill Jay

“The best zoom lens is your legs.” ~Ernst Haas

“I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.” ~Pablo Picasso

“A professional photographer is invited to dinner by some friends and is showing some award-winning photos. During the dinner the hostess comments ‘Wow, these photos are really amazing! You must have a very good camera!’. The photographer replies: ‘Definitely. By the way, this dish is excellent. You must have a very good pot’.” ~Anonymous

“A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera ‘saw’ a piece of time and space.” ~Garry Winogrand

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

“The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.” ~Edward Weston

“The camera cannot lie, but it cannot help being selective.” ~Anonymous

“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” ~Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject.” ~Victor Skrebneski

“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed, and is, thereby, a true manifestation of what one feels about life in its entirety…” ~Ansel Adams

“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.” ~Ansel Adams

“A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there–even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.” ~Doisneau Robert

“The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel cage chase from new lens to new paper to new developer to new gadget, never staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities, becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use since they don’t know what to do with it.” ~Edward Weston

“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.” ~Ansel Adams

“The camera is not an instrument of preservation, the image is.” ~Berenice Abbott

“The subject comes first, the medium second.” ~Richard Prince

“It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.” ~Sam Abell

“Never ever say the word shoot when you are taking a picture with a camera because a camera is not a violent weapon.” ~Ruth Bernhard

“Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.” ~Garry Winogrand

“The photographic image… is a message without a code.” ~Roland Barthes

“Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.” ~Imogen Cunningham

“People are under the illusion that it’s easy…Technically, it is complex. You have a million options with equipment to distract you. I tell my students to simplify their equipment.” ~Brett Weston

“No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.” ~Edward Steichen

“The magic of photography is metaphysical. What you see in the photograph isn’t what you saw at the time. The real skill of photography is organized visual lying.” ~Terence Donovan

“If you’re photographing in color you show the color of their clothes – if you use black and white, you will show the color of their soul.” ~Anonymous

“I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.” ~Edward Weston

“The camera is, at it’s root, a complex recording device. It is a mirror to the world – and a reasonably efficient machine for making images copies of the world it reflects. The camera is not a creative being, but the human who wields it is.”~Brooks Jensen

“Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don”t have the film.”~Anonymous

“98% of all cameras and lenses are sharper than 99% of all photographers.” ~Anonymous

“While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.” ~Lewis Hine

“I didn’t decide to be a photographer, I just happened to fall into it.” ~Berenice Abbott

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