Inspiring Quotes on Photography

World Photography Day is celebrated on August 19 of every year. The day originates from the invention of the Daguerreotype, a photographic process developed by Louis Daguerre which was announced by the French Academy of Sciences on January 9, 1839. A few months later, on August 19, 1839, the French government announced the invention as a gift to the “Free World.”

Can you Imagine an event or occasion without taking of photographs, whether it is a wedding, birthday, anniversary, reunion, or just a simple group meetup. Without photograph, it’s always INCOMPLETE.

Need some inspiration ? Here are some beautiful quotes on Photography .

Quotes on Photography

• 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
• No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. – Robert Adams
• Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like – David Alan Harvey
• It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head. – Henri Cartier-Bresson
• “Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
• Photography is the story I fail to put into worlds. by Destin Sparks

• There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. – Ansel Adams
• Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. – Ansel Adams
• Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine. – Berenice Abbott
• The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking. – Brooks Anderson
• Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. – Berenice Abbott

• I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting. –  Harry Callahan quotes
• If an old man asks a young girl for a date…
  That’s his business.
  If the young girl accepts…
  That’s her business.
  If the old man and the girl decide to marry…
  That’s their business.
  However, if they want great wedding photographs…
  THAT’S MY BUSINESS!!! – Anonymous
• The quickest way to make money at photography is to sell your camera. – Anonymous
• “I’ve always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.” – James Balog
• “Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”  — Susan Sontag
• “Skill in photography is acquired by practice and not by purchase.” — Percy W. Harris
• “I think of photography like therapy.”  — Harry Gruyaert

Sethu Ram

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