I LOVE me a quote. I love them so because it helps me say what I want but better than I would ever be able to say. I started today pulling photography quotes today and I found 31 I liked and knew I was going to do a blog post about this and decided to cut myself off. I didn't want to go overkill. So below are the 31 quotes that I found today. I am sure to find more later.

“Photography is the story I fail to put into words.”

Destin Sparks

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”

Ansel Adams

“When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.”

Alfred Eisenstaedt

“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”

Alfred Stieglitz

“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.”

Robert Frank

“Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.”

 Anonymous

“We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.”

Ralph Hattersley

“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.”

Annie Leibovitz

“A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.”

Edward Steichen

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

Andy Warhol

“Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.”

Diane Arbus

“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”

Elliott Erwitt

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

Dorothea Lange

“I don’t trust words. I trust pictures.”

Gilles Peress

“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.”

Diane Arbus

“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”

Marc Riboud

“Photography is truth.”

Jean-Luc Godard

“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.”

Ansel Adams

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

Diane Arbus

“If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.”

 Linda McCartney

“The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.”

Elliott Erwitt

“My life is shaped by the urgent need to wanter and observe and my camera is my passport.”

Steve McCurry

“Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.”

Eilliott Erwitt

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

Dorothea Lange

“Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.”

Edward Steichen

“Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.” 

George Eastman

“One doesn’t stop seeing. One doesn’t stop framing. It doesn’t turn off and on. It’s on all the time.”

Annie Leibovitz

“The camera has always been a guide, and it’s allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn’t even notice.”

Don Chadwick

“The first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”

Henry Cartier-Bresson

“Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.”

David Alan Harvey

“Photography is a love affair with life.”

Burk Uzzle