Great personalities leave an impact through their works or famous quotes. We remember them through their words on their works. Photographers have left a trial about their works with these quotations of theirs.

Collected here are some of the famous quotations by famous photographers on their works

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past  - Berenice Abbott

You don't take a photograph, you make it - Ansel Adams

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

The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it? -Edward Weston

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing a meditation - Henri Cartier Bresson

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

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

 It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter - Alfred Eisenstaedt

 Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still - Dorothea Lange

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination - Fay Godwin 

I see something special and show it to the camera. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs – Sam Abell

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away - Eudora Welty

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be -  Duane Michals 

Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know - Lisette Model

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

Life is like a good black and white photograph, there's black, there's white, and lots of shades in between - Karl Heiner

There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph - Robert Heinecken

Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history - Cornell Capa

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera - Lewis Hine

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts - Walker Evans

Sometimes the simplest pictures are the hardest to get  - Neil Leifer

The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE - Ernst Haas

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph - Robert Frank

If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you’re not out there, you’ll only hear about it  – Jay Maisel

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.” – Richard Avedon

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it beomes more real than reality - Alfred Stieglitz

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.

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world -  Arnold Newman.

No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.” ~ Robert Adams

 Light glorifies everything. It transforms and ennobles the most commonplace and ordinary subjects. The object is nothing, light is everything - Leonard Misone

 Which of the photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow - Imogen Cunningham

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