My Favourite Photography Quotes

Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field. 

- Peter Adams

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

- Yann Arthus-Bertrand

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

- Alfred Stieglitz

You don’t take a photograph, you make it.

- Ansel Adams

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.

– Aaron Siskind

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

– Ansel Adams

The world makes up my pictures, not me.

– Lee Friedlander

Photographs are just light and time.

– Aza Holmes

For me, the camera is a sketchbook, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

– Henri Cartier-Bresson

Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.

– Joe McNally

Photography is the beauty of life, captured.

- Tara Chisholm

Photography is a love affair with life.

- Burk Uzzle

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

- Eve  Arnold

Photography is not only what you see but also what you feel. 

- Ansel Adams

Which of my photographs is my favourite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.

- Imogen Cunningham

Photographers are violent people. First they frame you, then they shoot you, then they hang you on the wall.

- Unknown