From photographs we can learn about people in other parts of the world. Photos also reminds us of special people and events in our lives. Millions of people in the world take pictures of their family, friends, events and celebration everyday, it has now become an essential part of any celebration and our daily life.

Photography enriches our lives in many ways, it is a source of great art, lots of great imagery has been captured throughout the century, photography has also given us inspiring thoughts, I hope you will get inspired by some words of wisdom about photography, photographs and photographers that I have compiled.

• A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know - Diane Arbus
• There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs - Ansel Adams
• 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 Sussman
• There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. - Ansel Adams
• Results are uncertain even among the more experienced photographers. - Matthew Brady
• The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score and the print the performance. - Ansel Adams
• I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed - Galen Rowell
• Buying a Nikon doesn't make you a photographer.  it makes you a Nikon owner. - Author Unknown
• A photograph is like a recipe- a memory the finished dish. - Carrie Latet
• You don't take a photograph, you make it. -Ansel Adams

• In photography there is a reality so subtle that it beomes more real than reality - Alfred Stieglitz
• The two most engaging powers of a photograph are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. - William Thackeray
• The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter
• When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it. - Jean -Luc Godard
• The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world - Orson Welles
• If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera. - Lewis Hine
• A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety. - Ansel Adams

• Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film; they advertise memories - Theodore Levitt
• The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it? -Edward Weston
• Once photography enters your bloodstream, it is like a disease. - Anonymous
• Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved. - Bill Brandt
• Character, like photograph, develops in darkness. - Yousuf Karsh