60 photographer phrases for those who love to immortalize moments

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

Rafael Correa Batista

Which of my photos is my favorite? The one I’m taking tomorrow.

Imogen Cunningh

Some write their lives on sheets, I write on pictures.

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

Mario Quintana

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

Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

Arnold Newmann

Photography is the story I couldn’t tell in words.

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

If you don’t like to wait, you can’t be a photographer.

Sebastião Salgado

Capture moments you want to take with you forever.

Nothing happens when you stay at home. I always make it a reason to carry the camera with me at all times… I only photograph what interests me at that moment.

Elliott Erwitt

I see photography as instrumental music, it is poetry without words to rhyme.

Cris Santoro

Being a photographer goes beyond clicking! Being a photographer is to transmit, excite and create!

Photograph what is important to you and maybe one day your photos will be important to others.

John Sexton

Each person is like a poem that must be translated into an image.

Miguel Angel Sanchez

More love and photography please!

A skilled photographer can shoot anything well.

J. Szarkowski

After a while, you don’t use photography to show the world, you use photography to show you.

Miguel Rio Branco

Whenever you photograph, you learn something new.

The photographer, before using Photoshop, has to learn to photograph.

Jr. Duran

It’s not the color, it’s not the light, the main subject is what matters.

Steve McCurry

You don’t shoot with your camera. You photograph with all your culture.

Sebastião Salgado

I always say I take pictures instead of taking pictures.

Terry Richardson

Because the photo is not just us, it’s us and them.

Thomas Farkas

Yes, I’m a photographer. No, I don’t work for free.

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

Ansel Adams

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

To photograph is to immortalize a second.

Photographs put you in front of a reality that most of the time we don’t want to see, we don’t want to know and we don’t want to get involved.

Oliviero Toscani

More than a craft, photography is my way of communicating with the world, both capturing and emitting.

Bob Wolfenson

People who love to photograph.

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

Garry Winogrand

The beauty of the woman was the first expression of my photography.

Alberto Korda

In a serious relationship with my camera.

The photographer starts from an image that in itself constitutes a whole. Superficially, it appears as a whole like a finished painting, although it is rarely complete. The photographer completes the whole or the total image by analyzing a variety of total images. Therefore, the photographer does not invent anything; everything is there, visible from the beginning.

Minor White

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

Your first 10,000 photographs are the worst.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

You must demand the best of yourself. You should start looking for images that no one else can do. You must leverage the tools you have more and more deeply.

William Albert Allard

We don’t just take a picture with a camera; to the act of photographing we bring all the books we read, the movies we watched, the music we listened to and the people we loved.

Ansel Adams

I always thought good pictures are like good jokes. If you have to explain them, they’re not that good.

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

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

Matt Hardy

To photograph is to be able to capture what exists behind what is seen, it is to see through an invisible wall.

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

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photographers confuse the emotion they feel while taking the picture with judging whether the picture is good.

Garry Winogrand

Photography: for me, it’s the best way to enjoy life.

Thomas Farkas

I sincerely believe that there are things that no one would have seen if I hadn’t photographed them.

Diane Arbus

Photographers do nothing more than show the needles of the clock, but they choose their moments.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

Robert Cappa

Being a photographer is very rewarding. You are always remembered with great affection for having given someone all these possibilities to live again a moment that could have been lost.

Marino Guzman

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that forever fixes the precise and fleeting moment. We, the photographers, have to face things that are in a continuous trance of fading away; and when they are gone, there is nothing in this world to make them come back. Of course, we cannot reveal and copy a memory.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

The photographer is a poet who rhymes with images!

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

Robert Doisneau

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

J. Szarkowski

My portraits are more about me than the people I photograph.

Richard Avedon

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