Street Photography Quotes:

Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images.

topic: Inspirational, Photography, Art, Great Photography, Inspirational Design

- Helen Levitt

topic: Photography, Inarticulate, Street Photography

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

- Garry Winogrand

topic: Photography, Mistake, Emotion, Street Photography

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

source: "You Might Be a Cowgirl If . . .: A Guide to Life on the Range" by Jill Charlotte Stanford, Robin L. Corey, Globe Pequot, (p. 111), September 4, 2012.

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Photography, Great Photography, Inspiring Photography

- Ernst Haas

topic: Photography, Creativity, Cameras, Inspirational Photography, Street Photography

If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it's a street photograph

- Bruce Gilden

source: FaceBook post by Bruce Gilden from Oct 18, 2012

topic: Smell, Photograph, Streets, Street Photography

Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.

topic: Forever, Missing, Gone, Inspiring Photography, Street Photography

- Robert Capa

source: Robert Capa (1987). “Robert Capa: cuadernos de guerra en España (1936-1939).”

topic: Photography, Photographer, Good Enough, Great Photography, Inspirational Photography

Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

topic: Eye, Expression, Intuition, Inspirational Photography, Inspiring Photography

It's neither our culture nor our race which interconnects us. It's Street Photography.

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Photography, Years, Twelve, Great Photography, Landscape Photography

- Thomas Leuthard

topic: Photography, Race, Culture, Street Photography

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

topic: Inspirational, Taking Pictures, Analog, Street Photography, Photography By Photographers

- Dorothea Lange

topic: Inspirational, Photography, Black And White, Street Photography, Best Art

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph

source: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

topic: Photography, Details, Littles, Great Photography, Street Photography

- Andre Kertesz

topic: Photography, Enough, Photograph, Street Photography, Photography By Photographers

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

I love the people I photograph. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Photography, Knowing, Photographer, Landscape Photography, Street Photography

- Bruce Gilden

topic: Inspirational, Mean, People, Inspiring Photography, Street Photography

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

- Diane Arbus

topic: Inspirational, Photography, Philosophical, Great Photography, Inspiring Photography

There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

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.

topic: Photography, Eye, Expression, Inspiring Photography, Street Photography

Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.

topic: Photography, Art, Book, Inspirational Photography, Inspiring Photography

- William Klein

topic: Photography, Being Yourself, Looks, Street Photography, Clumsy

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

topic: Photography, Technique, Inability, Street Photography

- Alfred Eisenstaedt

topic: People, Boss, Important, Great Photography, Shutters

If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

- Garry Winogrand

topic: Photography, Saws, Shake It Up, Street Photography, Photography By Photographers

The eye should learn to listen before it looks.

- Robert Frank

source: Sarah Greenough, Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1994). “Robert Frank”, Natl Gallery of Art

topic: Photography, Eye, Black And White, Inspiring Photography, Street Photography

Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

topic: Photography, Home, Cameras, Street Photography, Camera And Photography

- David Bailey

topic: Photography, Imagination, Ordinary, Great Photography, Inspirational Photography

When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!

- Ted Grant

topic: Photography, Black And White, Color, Great Photography, Street Photography

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

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Photography, Great Photography, Inspiring Photography

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed,

- Garry Winogrand

topic: Looks, Photograph, Street Photography

Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.

- Joe McNally

source: Joe McNally (2008). “The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world's top shooters”, p.53, Pearson Education

topic: Photography, Cameras, Location, Street Photography, Camera And Photography

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

- Steve McCurry

source: "Steve McCurry’s Photographs Of His Travels Will Give You The Chills" by Rebecca Shapiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2015.

topic: Inspirational, Needs, Cameras, Inspiring Photography, Street Photography

Street Photography is like fishing. Catching the fish is more exciting than eating it...

- Thomas Leuthard

topic: Photography, Fishing, Eating, Street Photography

Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me.

- Thomas Leuthard

topic: Photography, Art, Forgive Me, Street Photography, God Forgives

When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.

- Robert Frank

source: Sarah Greenough, Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1994). “Robert Frank”, Natl Gallery of Art

topic: Photography, People, Looks, Inspirational Photography, Street Photography

During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.