Great Photography Quotes

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"Beautiful things never ask for attention.."
- Sean Penn (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

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

“One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.”
- Dorothea Lange

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

"I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated."
- James Nachtwey

"As a photographer, one of the most important lessons I have learnt is that you have to learn to listen to and trust your own instinct. It has helped to guide me - this far at least."
- James Nachtwey

“There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.”
- Abraham Lincoln

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, 
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.."
- Lord Byron

"Photography allows me to capture that very moment something captivates me, and like a freeze-ray gun, I freeze it in time."
- Travis M. Rigby