Here you will get the fabulous collection of inspirational, humorous photographer Instagram captions, motivational photographer captions, and famous photographer quotes, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Photographer Captions for Instagram

“Photography is a love affair with life.”

“Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.”

“Photography is truth.”

“Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.”

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”

“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.”

“Essentially what photography is is life lit up.”

“We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.”

“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.”

“You don’t take a photograph. You ask quietly to borrow it.”

“If your pictures are not good enough you are not close enough.”

“A tear contains an ocean. A photographer is aware of the tiny moments in a persons life that reveal greater truths.”

“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.”

“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”

“I wish that all of nature’s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.”

“The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.”

“Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.”

“I don’t trust words. I trust pictures.”

“Photography is the story I fail to put into words.”

Famous Photographer Captions

“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.”

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

“The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.”

“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.”

“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”

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

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

“If you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of more interesting stuff.”

“When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I’d like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.”

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

“Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.”

“A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.”

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

“Once photography enters your bloodstream, it is like a disease.”

“Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.”

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”

“When people ask me what equipment I use – I tell them my eyes.”

“Only photograph what you love.”

Best Photographer Quotes

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”

“In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.”

“When I photograph, what I’m really doing is seeking answers to things.”

“Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.”

“I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.”

“It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.”

“I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.”

“All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”

“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”

“I think good dreaming is what leads to good photographs.”

“It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.”

“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.”

“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”

“Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.”

“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.”

“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”