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

Inspiring Photography Quotes

“You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.” 
― Ansel Adams

“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

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

“For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.” 
― Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” 
― Alfred Stieglitz

“To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.” 
― Edward Weston

“I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.” 
― Diane Arbus

“A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.” 
― Brigitte Bardot

“There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.” 
― William S. Burroughs

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