125 Capturing Moments Quotes To Inspire Photography

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

“Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.” – Peter Adams

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

“Collect moments not things.”

“I love the people I photograph. I mean, they’re my friends. I’ve never met most of them or I don’t know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.” – Bruce Gilden

“When people ask me what equipment I use – I tell them my eyes.”

“Life is like a camera. Just focus on what’s important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things don’t work out, just take another shot.”

“Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.” – Yousuf Karsh

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

“You don’t take a photograph. You ask quietly to borrow it.”

“Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future.” – Sally Mann

“You 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

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

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

“Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.” – Imogen Cunningham

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

“I wish that all of nature’s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.” – Annie Leibovitz

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

“The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.” – Susan Meiselas

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

“I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.” – Ellen Von Unwerth

“No place is boring, if you’ve had a sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.” – Robert Adams

“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

“The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.”

“A photograph is the pause button of life.”

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” – Ansel Adams

“A tear contains an ocean. A photographer is aware of the tiny moments in a persons life that reveal greater truths.”

“At certain moments of intense personal grief, capturing images was for me the only way to comprehend later what was happening.” – Pedro Meyer

“When I photograph, what I’m really doing is seeking answers to things.” – Wynn Bullock

“Only photograph what you love.” – Tim Walker

“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

“It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.” – Alfred Eisenstaedt

“Capturing the moments of today that will wow your hearts tomorrow.”

“If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera.”

“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.” – John Berger

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

“If you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of more interesting stuff.” – Jim Richardson

“Once photography enters your bloodstream, it is like a disease.”

“Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.” – Don McCullin

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

“Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.” – Ambrose Bierce

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

“A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.” – Irving Penn

“I don’t trust words. I trust pictures.” – Gilles Peress

“Look for the moment between moments.”

“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Captured moments stuck in between reality and could-have-beens consuming a part of you and a part of me.”

“Photography is truth.” Jean-Luc Godard

“All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.” – Richard Avedon

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

“I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.” – Diane Arbus

“Once you learn to care, you can record images with your mind or on film. There is no difference between the two.”

“It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.” – Paul Caponigro

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

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

“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.” – Susan Sontag

“Life is short. Capture every moment.”

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

“Photography has nothing to do with cameras.” – Lucas Gentry

“If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it’s already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.” – Eve Arnold

“Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.” – Tony Benn

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

“The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.” – Scott Lorenzo

“When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I’d like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.” – Annie Leibovitz

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

“Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.” – Matt Hardy

“My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.” – Steve McCurry

“Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.” – Yousuf Karsh

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

“I think good dreaming is what leads to good photographs.” – Wayne Miller

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

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

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

“In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.” – August Sander

“Essentially what photography is is life lit up.” – Sam Abell

“Photography is the beauty of life captured.” – Tara Chisholm

“Photography to me is catching a moment that is passing, and which is true.” – Jacques-Henri Lartigue

“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” – Dr. Seuss

“Capturing a beautiful moment in a photo is something I’m very passionate about.” – Nigel Barker

“It’s weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don’t even amount to a couple of hours.” – James Lalropui Keivom

“When a moment in front of me appears to be particularly special, whether it be by beauty or experience, I capture it.” – Connor Franta

“Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So, it’s good to capture people when they are themselves.” – Patrick Demarchelier

“Photography is for me, a spontaneous impulse that comes from an ever-attentive eye, which captures the moment and its eternity.” – Henri Cartier Bresson

“After all, it’s not like I’ll suddenly arrive at the perfect photo and decide I can’t go any further. I’d hate to capture that moment.” – William Beem

“A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure.” – Robert Doisneau

“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” – Karl Lagerfeld

“My interest in photography is not to capture an image I see or have in my mind, but to explore the potential of moments I can only begin to imagine.” – Lois Greenfield

“Most of us focus so much on “capturing” the moment that we don’t realize we keep losing it for the next, which we will lose next.” – Prashant Chopra

“Capture every moment as if its your last.”

“I want pictures like these. The kind that can capture a moment, make it real. I need pictures that do more than reflect. I need pictures that are true.” – Lisa Mangum

“Film can capture a moment of spontaneous life that will never be captured again.” – Greta Gerwig

“A picture has the magic to make a moment last forever.”

“When trying to take a picture of a friend’s young, active daughter using my DSLR, it was impossible to capture the fleeting moments.” – Ren Ng

“So, I’m always trying to stay awake to be in the moment, and capture the moments when they come, because they come and go all the time.” – Mike Singletary

“People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.” – Weegee

“Some captured moments are worth a thousand memories, only if you can see it!”

“Like most photographers, I try to capture a moment in my work.” – Julian Lennon

“Capturing moments in eyes, is better than, capturing in camera.”

“Any moment which is not captured is loss in the events of time.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

“I am happiest sitting against a tree, with my notebook or sketchpad on my knee, capturing the moment.” – Fennel Hudson

“Capture the moment that take your breath away.”

“Photography was a way for me to freeze time and to capture the moments that were happy and healthy.” – Rachel Morrison

“If you don’t capture the moments, they will be gone forever.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

“Capturing the moments is good, living those moments is the best.” – Nitish Shukla

“In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.” – James Wilson

“When you take a picture you are stopping the moment you want to save.”

“Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.” – Booth Tarkington

“I don’t tend to do a whole Instagram theme. I like to capture the moment in front of me and make it look as good as possible!” – Connor Franta

“The Instagram generation now experiences the present as an anticipated memory.”

“Capture the sacred moment.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

“Human gesture and expression are the essences of photography. It’s not about lights or fast lenses and fast film. It’s the ability to capture a moment in time.” – John Shearer

“I used to like taking pictures. I wanted to capture precious moments and make them mine. I wanted to hang on to everything that might someday become a fond memory.” – Fumio Sasaki

“My main objective with every album is to capture a moment in time, which usually makes the whole process very relaxing.” – Alanis Morissette

“People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.” – Eddie Huang

“Happiness is… capturing special moments with your camera.”