Here are some great photography quotes to inspire!

"The belief is once you buy a camera you are a photographer. If I buy a Cello...... I own a cello; nothing more."
- Vincent Versace

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

"I do not think I can change the world with my photographs, but I do firmly believe that a bad picture can make it worse."
- Ferdinando Scianna

"When I ask to photograph someone, it is because I love the way they look and I think I make that clear. I'm paying them a tremendous compliment. What I'm saying is, I want to take you home with me and look at you for the rest of my life."
- Amy Arbus

"My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain."
- Helmut Newton

"Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold."
- W. Eugene Smith

"Photography is a language more universal than words."
- Minor White

"Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...." And then do it." - Duane Michals

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

"Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies."
- Diane Arbus

"To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy."
- Henri Cartier-Bresson

"Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time."
- Alexander Rodchenko

"We don't take pictures with our cameras. We take them with our hearts and we take them with our minds, and the camera is nothing more than a tool."
- Arnold Newman

"Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man."
- Edward Weston

‎"If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible."
- Richard Avedon