Photographer Quotes · Page 10

In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

“When I make a photograph I feel that I hold a piece of the universe in my hands.”

— Paul Chaplo

Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.

— Garry Winogrand

I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them?

— W. Eugene Smith

To be a photographer u gota see the bigger picture in life.

— Vincent Nkgoeng

There's nothing wrong with being a fashion photographer, but it's a bit limited.

— David Bailey

I fell into this thing by accident. I was never supposed to be a photographer.

— Christopher Anderson

I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

— Richard Avedon

Reporters listen, photographers look. If you are doing your job seriously as a photojournalist, your sight must be the primary sense that…

— Bill Eppridge

As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.

— Rineke Dijkstra

Images are altered in many ways, to many degrees, and for many reasons, so it's important for viewers to be informed of…

— John Paul Caponigro

I have a deep respect and love for these tiny humans, and I hope to convey in my images a measure of…

— Anne Geddes

[To a photographer who said, 'Look this way, love':] I am not your 'love.' I am Your Royal Highness!

— Anne, Princess Royal

The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really…

— James Taylor

I like the simple things. I don't know why. I'm that way. I came from a simple place.

— Harry Callahan

There is a myth that the portrait photographer is supposed to make the subject relax, and that's the real person. But I'm…

— Annie Leibovitz

It is every photographer's responsibility to discover new images and a new personal way of looking at things. If he can do…

— Alexey Brodovitch

Being a digital photographer I'm in awe of the older generation of photographers who created all those iconic cinematic style images on…

— Paul Walker

It's about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things…

— Elliott Erwitt

As a professional photographer I take photographs for other people to see - but I want them to see what I see.…

— Elliott Erwitt

My aspiration isn't to be some fashion photographer or anything. I think that's a space that's occupied by people that have a…

— C. J. Wilson

“It’s because I’m a witch that I can take these pictures,” Jennie said.  “A good portrait photographer shows the outside of a…

— Debora Geary

During my lifetime I have met dozens of writers and photographers in dozens of different countries. But I have encountered no one…

— James A. Michener

There are a lot of ways to talk about the life of a photograph. You can talk about the afterlife of a…

— Sam Abell

I was photographing the photographer Brassaï. He had very prominent eyes, like a frog's. As I focused my lens, he brought his…

— John Loengard

The decisive moment, the popular Henri Cartier-Bresson approach to photography in which a scene is stopped and depicted at a certain point…

— Fred Ritchin

Anthropology... has always been highly dependent upon photography... As the use of still photography - and moving pictures - has become increasingly…

— Margaret Mead

My photographs are proof of what happened. When I go to Russia, sometimes I meet ex-soldiers... They say, 'We came to liberate…

— Josef Koudelka

'Ornithologists concluded that migratory birds take hundreds of naps as they fly; they also practice unilateral eye closure, in which one eye…

— Bill Jay

One night I was on my [Navy] ship... on my first cruise crossing the North Atlantic in a horrible storm, chained to…

— Ralph Gibson

I think self-portraits are very difficult. I’ve always seen mine as straightforward, very stripped down, hair pulled back. No shirt. Whatever light…

— Annie Leibovitz

I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.

— Garry Winogrand

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

— Minor White

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

— Minor White

The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

— Walker Evans

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

— Ernst Haas

I believe that photography loves banal objects, and I love the life of objects.

— Josef Sudek

Photographer's advice: Stand in the right place.

— David Douglas Duncan

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

— Sally Mann