Photography Quotes

There are many famous and nice quotes about photography, but the following are the editor's choice.

You don’t take a photograph, you make it. - Ansel Adams
Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times…I just shoot at what interests me at that moment. – Elliott Erwitt
A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy. - Galen Rowell
As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs. -Sam Abell
I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent. -Imogen Cunningham
“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. -Ansel Adams
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
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past - Berenice Abbott
The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it? -Edward Weston
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away - Eudora Welty

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