Best Nature Photography Quotes

#1. I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.

Aaron Siskind

#2. If I could find them (assemblages) in nature I would photograph them. I make them because through photography I have a knowledge of things that can't be found.

Frederick Sommer

#3. The photogram, or camera-less record of forms produced by light, which embodies the unique nature of the photographic process, is the real key to photography.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#4. The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.

Helmut Newton

#5. Every traveler should make their own observation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

#7. It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.

Walter J. Phillips

#8. PHOTOGRAPHY is the best way, where you can SAVE your sweet PAST.

Aman Verma

#9. The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.

Marston Bates

#10. Compelling outdoor imagery always combines some kind of personal connection to nature and skillful technique. The former seems to be a form of grace, and the latter an act of the will.

George B. Ward

#11. Photography by nature is spiritual, considering it comes from the darkness to show the light.

Kevin Russo

#12. Nature is beautiful in all its chaos. However, a nature photograph is beautiful only in the absence of chaos.

Mike MacDonald

#13. The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.

Aaron Siskind

#14. Twentieth-century art has allowed me to see things in a cryptic way. I love the butterfly's wings, which disappear when folded and when open leave this brilliant, intense pronouncement of nature, 'Here I am.'

Emmet Gowin

#15. Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.

Heinrich Heine

#17. Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph cannot lie. Actually there never was a more unmitigated liar.

Walter J. Phillips

#18. Film photography will always be superior to digital - because no matter how many lasers and instant buttons and HD pixels you've got, a human being can take a photograph with much more integrity and meaning than one a built-in robot took.

Rebecca McNutt

#19. If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography.

E. J. Hughes

#20. When you look at nature, you see a hidden mystery that gives a special flavor to the photograph.

Abbas Kiarostami

#21. It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.

Ansel Adams

#22. Their intensive 1 -day nature photography instructional seminars. Both love to teach others how to make their own fine photographs.

Anonymous

#23. If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.

Edgar Allan Poe

#24. Nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of it?'

Walker Evans

#25. It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)

Alphonse De Lamartine

#26. There is no closed figure in nature. Every shape participates with another. No one thing is independent of another, and one thing rhymes with another, and light gives them shape.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#27. If you don't capture the moments, it will be gone forever.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.

August Sander

#29. Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.

Robert Adams

#30. In a world of disturbing images, the general body of photography is bland, dealing complacently with nature and treating our preconceptions as insights. Strange, private worlds rarely slip past our guard ...

Henry Holmes Smith

#31. Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#32. Nature is a picture waiting to be taken.

Katja Michael

#33. Actually, it's nature itself that creates the most beautiful pictures, I'm only choosing the perspective.

Katja Michael

#34. Nature photography ... that acknowledges what is wrong, is admittedly sometimes hard to bear - it has to encompass our mistakes. Yet in the long run, it is important; in order to endure our age of apocalypse, we have to be reconciled not only to avalanche and hurricane, but to ourselves.

Robert Adams

#35. Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear.

Martin Parr

#36. Every photograph is a fiction with pretensions to truth. Despite everything that we have been inculcated, all that we believe, photography always lies; it lies instinctively, lies because its nature does not allow it to do anything else.

Joan Fontcuberta

#37. Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.

Paul Caponigro

#38. If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)

Charles Negre