100 Inspirational Photography Quotes & Instagram Captions

Although words alone cannot create a photograph, inspirational quotations about photography serve as more than simply a backdrop for popular, trending Instagram images. These nuggets of knowledge have the power to spark an abundance of inventive ideas and a deep comprehension of photography. This amazing collection of quotations about photography from well-known photographers - and every tiny element that goes into an image - may help you relate to experiences that other photographers may have experienced, regardless of your level of expertise.

1. Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.” – Peter Adams
2. “I don’t trust words. I trust pictures.” – Gilles Peress
3. “Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” – Dorothea Lange
4. “Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.” – Marc Riboud
5. “The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.” – Andy Warhol
6. “What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” – Karl Lagerfeld
7. “When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.” – Alfred Eisenstaedt
8. “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” – Ansel Adams

1. “Black and white are the colors of photography. To me, they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.” — Robert Frank
2. “Black and white photography erases time from the equation.” — Jason Peterson
3. “Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.” — Elliott Erwitt
4. “I think it’s because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Color is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn’t necessarily reach the heart.” — Kim Hunter
5. “The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all.” — Vikrmn
6. “The special factor about black and white photography is that it doesn’t just copy the reality, but it represents it with its own language.” — Gian Marco Marano
7. “To see in color is a delight for the eye but to see in black and white is a delight for the soul.” — Andri Cauldwell
8. “What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.” — Ruth Bernhard
9. “With black and white photography, what you have to say counts more than the way you say it.” — Gian Marco Marano
10. Color is everything, black and white is more.” — Dominic Rouse
11. There’s something strange and powerful about black and white imagery.” – Stefan Kanfer
12. When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls!” – Ted Grant

1. “Be kind to your photographer because the power of editing is in their hands.” – Anonymous
2. “Cheap photography isn’t good, my dear, and good photography isn’t cheap.” – Someecards
3. “Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don’t have film.” – Stephen Wright
4. “People say photographs don’t lie, mine do.” – David LaChapelle
5. “The quickest way to make money at photography is to sell your camera.” – Anonymous
6. “There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.” – Abraham Lincoln
7. “Why yes, I’d love to take your photos for free. That’s exactly why I spent thousands of dollars on all this equipment.” – Someecards

1. “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. “How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!” – John Muir
3. “I wish that all of nature’s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.” – Annie Leibovitz
4. “Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.” – Ansel Adams
5. “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein
6. “Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.” – Ambrose Bierce
7. “The earth is art, the photographer is only a witness.” – Yann Arthus-Bertrand
8. “Wherever there is light, one can photograph.” – Alfred Stieglitz
9. It all ultimately comes down to showing respect to nature and understanding the species you want to photograph.” – Riddhi Mukherjee
10. Wildlife photography “…combines knowledge of natural history, biodiversity, development, man-animal conflict, conservation policies, and so on.” – Percy Fernandez

1. “Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.” – Joe McNally
2. “In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” — Alfred Stieglitz
3. “Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.” – Bill Brandt
4. “Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.” — Aaron Siskind
5. “Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.” — Anonymous
6. “The camera makes you forget you’re there. It’s not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.” – Annie Leibovitz
7. “The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?” – Edward Weston
8. “There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.” — Robert Frank
9. “While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.” Dorothea Lange
10. “You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.” Joan Miro

1. Capture the essence of the city streets.
2. Every street tells a story.
3. Exploring the hidden corners of the city.
4. Finding beauty in the urban chaos.
5. Let the streets be your muse.
6. Street art and city vibes.
7. Unveiling the soul of the streets.
8. Urban magic.
9. Walk, frame, capture.
10. Wandering through the concrete jungle.

1. Always take the scenic route.
2. Another day, another sunset.
3. Breathe in the crisp mountain air. You’ll feel glorious.
4. I think nature is my color.
5. I’ve reached more peaks than I can count.
6. No turning or looking back. The path ahead holds the answers you need.
7. Not all classrooms have four walls.
8. The mountains are calling, and I must go!
9. There is a pleasure in the pathless woods.

1. A glimpse into the subject's world.
2. Capturing the beauty within.
3. Celebrating the beauty of individuality.
4. Magnifying emotions through photography.
5. Portraits that speak without words.
6. Revealing the hidden depths.
7. Silent emotions captured.
8. Turning moments into eternal memories.

1. Capturing the magic of your special day.
2. Forever starts today.
3. Love captured forever.
4. Love in every frame.
5. Picture-perfect love.
6. Preserving memories in frames.
7. Pure bliss.

1. Born to chase the starlight.
2. Bright sky, bright stars, bright moon!
3. Every star is attributed to at least one wish.
4. Had we sat out every night watching the stars, mankind would have had a different life.
5. Let evening fall, and space will be lit up.
6. Live by the sun, love by the stars
7. Stars are the brightest ideas that the universe has had.
8. Stars in my eyes, sun in my heart.

1. Collect moments, not things.
2. Never stop doing things for the first time.
3. Adventures are the best way to learn.
4. Backpacking is money spent on education.
5. Embracing each moment, one destination at a time.
6. Go where you feel alive.
7. It feels good to be lost in the right direction.
8. Let’s get lost in the adventure!
9. Daydreams lead to adventures.
10. Table for one, view for a lifetime.
11. No maps, no plans, just me and my camera.