I have been on Twitter for about 2 years now (@transitionphoto), and I come across many wonderful quotes every day. I have been saving them in my ‘Favourites’ because they inspire me. Here are 25 in no particular order. I will make some follow up posts with lots more in the future because there are too many to include all at once. I hope you enjoy them like I do, and maybe even learn something or are inspired like myself.

1. Photography is a love affair with life. – Burk Uzzle
2. The rarest thing in the world is a woman who is pleased with a photograph of herself. – Elizabeth Metcalf
3. When someone looks at one of my photographs I want it to touch all their senses. – Marsha Cairo
4. It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use. – Sam Abell
5. Photography for me is a passion, a mixture of science and art that creates magic. If a day goes by without photography, it’s incomplete – Unknown
6. Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like. – David Alan Harvey
7. No one but YOU knows how hard you work,how many hours you put in behind the scenes,so rely on YOURSELF for approval, not the outside world. – Unknown
8. Contrast is what makes photography interesting – Conrad Hall
9. I photograph what I love. As Rumi says, “Let the beauty we love, be what we do.” – Chris Noble
10. Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. – Edouard Boubat
11. Like the people you shoot and let them know it. – Robert Capa
12. Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. – Berenice Abbott
13. Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location – Joe McNally
14. Photography is a love affair with life. – Burk Uzzle
15. Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them. But do not let them master you. -Hellen Keller
16. It is part of the photographer’s job to see more intensely than most people do. – Bill Brandt
17. There are two types of photographers: those who take pictures and those who make pictures. – Camille Bonzani
18. When the shutter closes the world opens! – Sharon Wax
19. Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera – Yousuf Karsh
20. The artist is nothing without gift, but the gift is nothing without work. – Emile Zola
21. Bad photography, like bad art, is not the fault of the medium, but of the person using the medium – Peter Mendes
22. Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art – Ansel Adams
23. We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. – Anais Nin
24. When you use a camera, not as a machine but as an extension of your heart, you become a good photographer. – Anonymous
25. The mystery isn’t in the technique, it’s in each of us. – Harry Callahan