100 photography phrases to immortalize every moment

Photograph the love and spread it around.

And suddenly, in a photograph, the world turned to watercolor.

Photography is an immediate reaction, painting is a meditation.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

To photograph is to immortalize a second.

The photographer has the same function as the poet: to immortalize the moment that passes.

Mario Quintana

Photography is not made by the photographer. The photo comes out better or worse depending on the relationship between the photographer and the person photographing.

Sebastião Salgado

Stop, look, photograph.

The photographer’s role is to document and for that what is needed is an efficient camera and intuition.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

The photographer’s truth is that split second. If they manipulate it, then we won’t be talking about photography anymore.

Sebastião Salgado

Photography is an art for the eyes to remember when the heart forgets.

Sonia Almeida

I wanted every photograph of the past to have the power to bring back every happy moment that time took me.

Thaisa Rocha

Photography is an inexplicable feeling that comes from the soul, it’s being everywhere with your mind in a creative process.

The lens reveals more than the eye can see.

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’ll do tomorrow.

Imogen Cunningham

Everything that is not photographed is lost, so to truly live, you have to photograph.

Whenever you photograph, you learn something new.

Walk, look, hold, feel, click and repeat.

To photograph is to put the head, the eye and the heart on the same line.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

Ansel Adams

I see my photographs as an expression of the reality around me, of how I feel and see it.

Cristina Streciwick

You don’t take a picture, you create a picture.

You don’t shoot with your camera, you shoot with all your culture.

Sebastião Salgado

Photography is a form of fiction. It is both a record of reality and a self-portrait, because only the photographer sees it that way.

Gerard Castello Lopes

Saving the moments with all their emotion and reliving them with all their intensity. This is the art of photography!

Believe me, a wrong angle changes everything.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people to see without a camera.

It’s not just a photograph. It’s a reflection of all the things you’ve ever seen, all the books you’ve ever read, all the music you’ve ever heard, all the people you’ve ever loved.

The world needs more love and more photography, please.

To photograph is to be able to capture what exists behind what you see with your eyes.

When touching the eye to the viewfinder, the reality that surrounds us disappears and the only thing that matters is what we capture through the lens.

JR Duran

A good click doesn’t let the moments slip away.

One of the secrets of this creative craft is to show these things, which we all live but don’t see.

César Beltran

The first step to understanding photography is understanding what you want to photograph.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

Ansel Adams

A photograph is the secret of a secret. The more you say, the less you know.

Diane Arbus

Photography is the poetry of immobility: it is through photography that moments can be seen as they are.

Peter Urmenyi

While the designer starts with the center of the sheet, the photographer starts with the frame.

J. Szarkowski

Your camera is the best critic there is. No critic can see as much as the camera sees. It is more perceptive than the human eye.

Douglas Sirk

Photography is the poetry of immobility: it is through photography that moments can be seen as they are.

Peter Urmenyi

People take pictures of anything beautiful. Photographers make beautiful pictures of anything.

Rafael Correa Batista

Photography is a form of fiction. It is both a record of reality and a self-portrait, because only the photographer sees it that way.

Gerard Castello Lopes

If you look like the picture on your passport, it’s because you really need to travel.

Earl Wilson

Take photos of special moments and have memories for a lifetime.

It can be a trap for the photographer to think that their best photos are the ones that were the hardest to capture.

Timothy Allen

I photograph to show that the world I would like to live in exists.

Robert Doisneau

Photography leads us to relive the best moments of our lives.

Mariana Gil

Enjoy your day to photograph the beautiful things, it makes everyday life lighter!

Shoot with the camera, but if one day you can, shoot with your heart.

Photography is like writing poetry without using words.

Mariana Gil

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to carry a camera.

Lewis Hine

If a photo isn’t good enough, it’s because you didn’t get close enough to the fact.

Robert Cappa

I walk, I observe, I see, I stop, I photograph.

Leon Levinstein

Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always carry a camera with me… I only photograph what interests me at the moment.

Elliott Erwitt

The photographs of life are revealed with the heart and saved in the album of memories in our memory!

When you think life is confusing, change your focus.

Photography is the poetry of immobility: it is through photography that moments allow themselves to be seen as they are.

Peter Urmenyi

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that forever fixes the precise and transitory moment.

What will remain in the photograph are the invisible ties that existed.

Photography makes us look at all sides of ourselves, including the inside.

Lina Marano

If something cannot be written down, or thought about, it can be photographed.

Stanley Kubrick

The best thing about a photograph is that it doesn’t change even when people do.

Andy Warhol

Noticing what is out of context is the essence of the photographer’s work.

J. Szarkowski

Photography is a tool for dealing with things that everyone knows but doesn’t pay attention to. My photos are intended to represent something that cannot be seen.

Emmet Gowin

Photography is one of the few things that has power over time: it paralyzes it.

A skilled photographer can shoot anything well.

J. Szarkowski

Photography always amazes me, with an amazement that lasts and renews itself, inexhaustibly.

Roland Barthes

Photography is like this… Poetry composed of light, moments and feelings.

Vinícius Aguiar

Photography is like fishing or writing. It is extracting from the unknown what resists and insists on not coming to light.

Jean Gaumy

Just you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, because what you see is what you are.

Ernst Haas

The camera is a fluid way of finding another reality.

Everyone smiles in the photographs. That’s why we should never trust them.

I photograph to find out how something will look when photographed.

Garry Winogrand

A photo only lives for those who look at it.

Fernando Mazza

Attempts to obtain a photograph make the images generated not only remain in the minds of those who take them.

Gero Hoffmann

Everything that is not photographed is lost, so to truly live you have to photograph.

Italo Calvino

We don’t remember the days, we remember moments.

Being a photographer goes beyond clicking. To be a photographer is to transmit, to thrill, to create.

Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology.

Ken Rockwell

The best photograph is the one your eyes take and don’t reveal.

More than a simple image and more than just art. A photograph is a frozen memory of time, emotions and everything else.

Korske Ara

If a photo isn’t good enough, it’s because you didn’t get close enough.

Robert Cappa

Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology.

Ken Rockwell

The camera is a mirror endowed with memory, but incapable of thinking.

Arnold Newmann

The writer and the photographer use the same tools, but while one describes an image with a thousand words, the other describes a thousand words with an image.

Jefferson Luiz Maleski

Photography is life’s pause button.

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing beauty is what separates the simple image from the photograph.

Matt Hardy

Photography is nothing more than a calculation where the sum variables are light and creativity, elevated to the passion of that moment.

Lucas Barbosa

Photography is living.

Train your eyes to capture the story your brain wants to tell.

Vered Koshlan

For a good connoisseur, half a word is enough. For a good photographer, half an image is everything.

Marcus Vinicius Pavan

My photography is memory resistance.

Araquém Alcântara

To photograph is to show what we were, are, and how we will be remembered when we are no longer here.

Marly Burack

Photographers immortalize moments through clicks and tell stories through albums.

The photographer is a poet who rhymes with images.

Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.

I don’t take pictures of life as it is, but of how I wanted it to be.

Robert Doisneau

Photography is the poetry of the eyes translated into the essence of emotions.

The more photographs you see, the better you will see as a photographer.

Robert Mapplethorpe

Photography is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

In a serious relationship with my camera.