Photography Beauty Quotes

#1. We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.

Criss Jami

#2. When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. Something very ugly to you as a person can look beautiful through the viewfinder, but being able to find that beauty, oftentimes, means seeing the humanity within the frame. If you turn that off completely, you don't see at all.

Zana Briski

#4. A self-help story about a man who overcomes circumstance by reminiscing over his own life's lessons. Inspired, he sets out at night on the gritty streets of New York City to capture the beauty of life thru his passion for photography.

Amazon

#5. I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.

Ansel Adams

#6. What is important is that our optical awareness rids itself of classical notions of beauty and opens itself more and more to the beauty of the instant and of these surprising points of view that appear for a brief moment and never return; those are what make photography an art.

Raoul Hausmann

#7. Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.

Alain De Botton

#8. God creates the beauty. My camera and I are a witness.

Mark Denman

#9. When a moment in front of me appears to be particularly special, whether it be by beauty or experience, I capture it. I usually find a reason to justify taking that photo - symmetry, or color, or contrast - and it's my hope that my photography sheds light onto what I see and do on a daily basis.

Connor Franta

#10. The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.

Auguste Rodin

#11. In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty and beauty. You get dwarfs.

Susan Sontag

#12. Photography teaches us to see, and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photograph, I make a wish. I was always looking for beauty.

George A Tice

#13. Beauty can be seen in all things ...

Matt Hardy

#14. All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like a phenomenon in nature, like a flower or a snowflake whose vegetable or earthly origins are an inseparable part of their beauty.

Andre Bazin

#15. God creates the beauty. Through my camera, I am a witness.

Mark Denman

#16. Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.

Susan Sontag

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

Matt Hardy

#18. Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.

Sebastian Smee

#19. I became interested in photography during my first visit to the United States. I was a student at a university in Holland. I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the American West. That was when I learned about the tradition of nature in American photography.

Frans Lanting

#20. I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'

Jerry Saltz

#21. Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls. In fact Jesus was constantly making pictures of God in people's life by looking at their souls and exposing them to his light.

Francis Bacon

#22. Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

Edward Steichen

#23. Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

Marc Riboud

#24. The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

#25. The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.

Alberto Korda

#26. Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the world or of beauty.

Daido Moriyama

#27. 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

#28. In some sense, list-making is to mind-mapping as black and white photography is to color photography. Both are good, both are useful. One gives you precision and clarity; the other gives you a broader spectrum of potential beauty, as well as access to otherwise-unseen features.

Anonymous

#29. Photography is no longer a love affair with the beauty of reality.

Peter Lindbergh

#30. I was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium.

Anton Yelchin

#31. I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.

Man Ray

#32. When posing for a photograph, spinsters should avoid looking desperate or deprived. A serene smile will show that your circumstances are by choice and not for lack of beauty or character. -Miss Gertrude Hasslebrink, 1878

Margaret Brownley

#33. There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

Abraham Lincoln

#34. To me, the work I do is a means of interpreting unsettling truths, of bearing witness, and of sounding an alarm. The beauty of formal representation both carries an affirmation of life and subversively brings us face to face with news from our besieged world.

Richard Misrach

#35. I find the surface of a photograph a thing of beauty in and of itself, and it is this surface that makes a photograph unique relative to other two-dimensional media.

John Sexton

#36. She had the most beautiful awkwardness

Brandon Stanton

#37. I love writing and photography and the natural world that inspires them both. I'm working on getting as lost as I can in the beauty before it is completely wiped clean by the madness of man.

Jason Reeves

#38. I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.

Edward Weston

#39. He who seeks beauty will find it.

Bill Cunningham

#40. Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is really 'ordinary', for every fragment of the world is crowned with wonder and mystery, and a great and surprising beauty.

Alvin Langdon Coburn

#41. All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library.

Rivera Sun

#42. My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real and Ideal and sacrificing nothing of the Truth by all possible devotion to Poetry and beauty.

Julia Margaret Cameron

#43. Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.

Keira Knightley