Photography Quotes & Sayings
These photography quotes and photography sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection.Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer, and often the supreme disappointment. - Ansel Adams
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv. - Henri Cartier-Bresson
The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth. - Edward Steichen
Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true. - Jacques-Henri Lartigue
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. - Berenice Abbott
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary. - David Bailey
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. - Ansel Adams
When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself. - Edward Steichen