With social media platforms going abuzz with constant uploads of every animate or inanimate subjects, the world has more pictures now than it ever had.

A photograph captures a brief moment in time. If you cut it just right, a picture will reveal the unvarnished truth of a person's identity, aspirations, and current emotions.

Photographs are frozen memories, evidence of the moment an individual was awestruck by something and are significant in everyone's life — a direct window into the past.

Every year on Aug. 19, World Photography Day is observed to honour both amateur and professional photographers. On this occasion, shutterbugs from all over the world have the opportunity to mark this day for their craft.

The idea of commemorating photography started after the French government gifted the world the Joseph Nicéphore Nipce and Louis Daguerre-invented daguerreotype method on Aug. 19, 1839.

Here are a few inspirational quotes that capture the essence of people, places, feelings, and stories that photographs can encompass. (Courtesy: Goodreads)

  1. "Photography is the story I fail to put into words." - Destin Sparks
  2. "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." - Elliott Erwitt
  3. "What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce." - Karl Lagerfeld
  4. "Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second." - Jean-Luc Godard
  5. "When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!" - Ted Grant
  6. "It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down...." - Kate Morton, The House at Riverton
  7. "A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know." - Diane Arbus
  8. "Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective" - Migue Syjuco
  9. "You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life." - Donna Tartt
  10. "For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
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