The 10 inspirational Street Photography quotes

Street Photography has to be done but it can also be talked about. In this post I want to share the most inspirational quotes I ever read. I selected not the most known or the ones always shared:I prefer to include those that have marked my photography in a certain way, especially in terms of approach.

1.

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer. - Gordon Parks

2.

If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you’re not out there, you’ll only hear about it. - Jay Maisel

3.

You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there. - Joel Meyerowitz

4.

Photograph the world as it is. Nothing’s more interesting than reality. -  Mary Ellen Mark

5.

Buy a good pair of comfortable shoes, have a camera around your neck at all times, keep your elbows in, be patient, optimistic and don’t forget to smile. - Matt Stuart

6.

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

7.

Great photography is always on the edge of failure. - Garry Winogrand

8.

All things are photographable. - Garry Winogrand

9.

I want to take a lot of Nasty photos. - Daido Moriyama

10.

I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography—that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as landscape and portrait photography, are a little more applied, more mixed in the with the history of painting and other art forms. - Joel Meyerowitz