We’ve always been enormous fans of street photography quotes and captions. they are always inspiring and interesting. Here’s a handpicked list of thirty of our favorite quotes for Street Photography and Photography generally.
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TOP 30 Street Photography Quotes From Famous Street Photographers
1. “Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.”
-Mark Twain
2. “Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
-Henri Cartier-Bresson
3. “Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph.”
-Andre Kertesz
4. “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
5. “I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.”
-Jim Goldberg
6. “I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical.”
-Trent Parke
7. “Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good.”
-Garry Winogrand
8. “If you seek authenticity for authenticity’s sake you are no longer authentic.”
-Jean Paul Sartre
9. “Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way… An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
-Charles Bukowski
10. “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.”
– Diane Arbus
11. “A photograph has picked up a fact of life, and that fact will live forever.”
-Raghu Rai
12. “The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things in words.”
-Elliott Erwitt
13. “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 ordinary.”
-David Bailey
14. “Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn’t look like somebody else’s work.”
-William Klein
15. “The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”
-Oscar Wilde
16. “Emotion or feeling is really the only thing about pictures I find interesting. Beyond that is is just a trick.”
-Christopher Anderson
17. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
-George Addair
18. “The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography.”
-Richard Kalvar
19. “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
-Mark Twain
20. “I think good dreaming is what leads to good photographs.”
-Wayne Miller
21. “I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a document of that performance.”
-Alec Soth
22. “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”
-Ansel Adams
23. “Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.”
–Renee Magritte
24. “I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.”
-Garry Winogrand
25. “No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
-Oscar Wilde
26. “You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there.”
-Joel Meyerowitz
27. “The best dreams happen when you’re awake.”
-Cherie Gilderbloom
28. “It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.”
-Alfred Eisenstaedt
29. “Which of my photographs is my favourite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.”
-Imogen Cunningham
30. “Anyone can shoot chaos. But the most perceptive photographers can make compelling pictures out of uninteresting moments.”
-Alex Tehrani
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