41+ Photography Quotes About Celebrating Memories (2023)

41+ Photography Quotes About Celebrating Memories (2023)

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A photo not only keeps good moments but also gives us a chance to revisit them.

Here are the best inspirational quotes and sayings about pictures capturing memories that you can share on world photography day 2023.


What Is Photography Quotes

1. “Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality” – Alfred Stieglitz

2. “Photography is a love affair with life” – Burk Uzzle

3. “Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving” – Aaron Siskind

4. “To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart” – Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

6. “Photography is basically an art of arranging the angles” – Mehmet Murat ildan

7. “Photography is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true” – Jacques-Henri Lartigue

8. “Photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure” – Tony Benn

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Quotes About Photos

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

10. “A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second” – Salman Rushdie

11. “The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality” – Scott Lorenzo

12. “You don’t take a photograph, you make it” – Ansel Adams

13. “Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second” – Marc Riboud

14. “The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do” – Andy Warhol

15. “A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed” – Ansel Adams

16. “The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are” – Ernst Hass

17. “Photography is a means by which we learn to see the ordinary” – David Bailey

18. “Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved” – Bill Brandt

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Quotes About Purpose Of Photography

19. “Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still” – Dorothea Lange

20. “Photography is a magical kind of art that allows people to preserve time and moments, and to describe the world the way they see it” – Sahara Sanders

21. “Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell” – Kim Edwards

22. “Taking a photograph is a lot like falling in love. You see a light and it intrigues you; and you want to see or be in that light forever” – Mickey Burrow

23. “You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved” – Ansel Adams

24. “To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy” – Henri Cartier-Bresson

25. “Photography is an itch that won’t go away. No matter how much you scratch it” – Dara McGrath

26. “Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision” – Sebastian Smee


Short Quotes And Sayings About Photography

27. “Photography is what emotions look like” – Jon Luvelli

28. “Photography is where the past meets the present” – Destin Sparks

29. “Photographs are a bridge to the past” – Jim Starlin

30. “Photography is truth” – Jean-Luc Godard

31. “A photograph is an opportunity to keep a moment forever” – Destin Sparks

32. “Photographs shape the past in our own image” – Chloe Thurlow

33. “In photography, there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated” – August Sander

34. “One advantage of photography is that it’s visual and can transcend language” – Lisa Kristine


Quotes About Photo And Memories

35. “When you take the picture of the people, you take the picture of the whole stories of their past because every person is nothing but a combination of their entire past stories” – Mehmet Murat ildan

36. “A good photograph never belongs to the past; every time you look at it, it is with you, it is alive and it is in the present moment” – Mehmet Murat ildan

37. “Our photographs are our best proof to others that we lived the things we lived in the past” – Mehmet Murat ildan

38. “A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you” – Brigitte Bardot

39. “Photographs, it seems to me, are both moments in time and bits of memory” – Craig Lancaster

40. “Photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place” – Eliott Erwitt

41. “The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer” – Steven Pinker

42. “Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work” – Martin Parr


Proud To Be A Photographer Quotes

43. “If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it’s already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer” – Eve Arnold

44. “Photographers stop photographing subjects too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities” – Dorothea Lange

45. “It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart, and head” – Henri Cartier-Bresson

46. “Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real” – Ansel Adams

47. “Photography is the art of making memories tangible” – Destin Sparks

48. “In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people” – James Wilson

49. “Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees” – Paul Strand

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