The Photo Quote Archive

FocalPower has built and supports the Photo Quote Archive as an online source of quotations about photography, art, and creativity. Looking for some inspirational, thought provoking, or just humorous words to stoke your Photographic or Artistic fire? The Quote Archive is here to help!

The Photo Quote Archive is provided as a public service to the photographic community. All quotations contained within the Quote Archive are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.

Search the Photo Quote Archive and view quotations by:

• Author
• Subject (Primary Subject > Secondary Subject)

Submit a Quote to the Archive.

The Random Photo Quote Widget

Looking for a way to get quotes from the Quote Archive into your website, blog, or forum? That's where the Random Photo Quote Widget comes in! The widget retrieves a random quotation from the Photo Quote Archive and places it on the web page where the widget is installed. See the Words of Wisdom box to the right as an example of the quote in use.

Use the Random Photo Quote Widget on your website, blog, or any other place you want! Simply place the widget's HTML into your site's template and then every time the page is loaded a new random quote will be pulled from the FocalPower service.

Additional Instructions and Support for using the widget is available at the Random Quote Widget board on the FocalPower Forum.

How to Use the Random Photo Quote Widget:

1. Random Quote From Entire Photo Quote Archive (default)
   The Photo Quote Archive contains many quotes organized into a primary and secondary subjects. The HTML below is the default behavior that gets a random quote from entire archive:
   
   
   <div><a id="focalpower_quote" href="http://www.focalpower.com/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 7pt;">provided by FocalPower</a></div><script src="http://www.focalpower.com/app/quote/random.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
   
   <div><a id="focalpower_quote" href="http://www.focalpower.com/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 7pt;">provided by FocalPower</a></div><script src="http://www.focalpower.com/app/quote/random.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
   
   
2. Random Quote from a Primary Subject
   If you want a random quote from just a primary subject, use the HTML below:
   
   
   <div><a id="focalpower_quote" href="http://www.focalpower.com/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 7pt;">provided by FocalPower</a></div><script src="http://www.focalpower.com/app/quote/random.js?subject1=photography" type="text/javascript"></script>
   Near the bottom of the HTML (the src= line):

   /app/quote/random.js?subject1=photography"

   change the word in bold to the primary subject you desire.
   

3. Random Quote from a Secondary Subject
   If you want a random quote from just a more focused secondary subject, use the HTML below:
   
   
   <div><a id="focalpower_quote" href="http://www.focalpower.com/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 7pta">provided by FocalPower</a></div><script src="http://www.focalpower.com/app/quote/random.js?subject1=photography&subject2=general" type="text/javascript"></script>
   Near the bottom of the HTML (the src= line):

   /app/quote/random.js?subject1=photography&subject2=general"

   change the words in bold to the primary and secondary subject you desire.

   Note: both a primary and secondary subject are required.
   

4. Single Specific Quote
   If you always want a specific quote, use the HTML below:
   
   
   <div><a id="focalpower_quote" href="http://www.focalpower.com/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 7pt;">provided by FocalPower</a></div><script src="http://www.focalpower.com/app/quote/random.js?quote=257" type="text/javascript"></script>
   Near the bottom of the HTML (the src= line):

   /app/quote/random.js?quote=257"

   change the number in bold to the quote number for the desired quote. The quote number can be found beneath each quote when browsing the Photo Quote Archive and will not change.