Photography Quotes

Ansel Adams

“You don't take a photograph, you make it.”

Dorothea Lange

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

David Bailey

David Bailey, a revolutionary fashion and social photographer from the ‘60s, famously said, “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 extraordinary…”.

But as David Bailey told us back in the ‘60s, “If you are not looking, you won’t see.”

Abraham Lincoln

“There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.”

Ted Grant

“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!”