Photographer Quotes · Page 13

Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.

— Robert Frank

I don't know who said 'pictures don't lie.' It couldn't have been a photographer.

— Linda Palmer

Photographers can create moments that will never happen again but last a lifetime.

— Tyler Shields

I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.

— Sam Abell

I prefer to be noticed some day, first for my ideas and second for my good eye.

— Ernst Haas

Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

— Man Ray

To be a photographer you must have something to say about the world.

— Paul Strand

Most photographers work best alone, myself included.

— Elliott Erwitt

In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a…

— Graciela Iturbide

I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way…

— Sally Mann

I've learned over the years that when you get a clue to another possibility to follow it through.

— Jerry Uelsmann

You have to learn not only from your failures. You must also learn from your successes.

— Jay Maisel

I never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is…

— Imogen Cunningham

Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street,…

— Minor White

Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have.

— John Paul Caponigro

Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to…

— Tim Walker

I never considered myself a good photographer. I still don't. I thought of myself as a hard worker. My camera was a…

— Lawrence Schiller

It's good that everyone has an opportunity to take pictures, the chance to be a photographer. Some are good, too. But the…

— Mary Ellen Mark

Work incessantly, cultivate discrimination, gather freedom from your own hard-earned results. Disregard successes but go back for help in an immediate problem.…

— Paul Caponigro

We are extremely precise about the girls we like; they're not necessarily the "It" girls of the season. Sometimes this "It" girl…

— Christophe Lemaitre

I've worked with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years, and we have this magnificent photographer, Tad Motoyama. He takes these wonderful,…

— Betty White

I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot of painters and photographers and had a very…

— Jared Leto

Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others. Photography is still a very new medium and…

— Bill Brandt

When a photographer chooses a subject, he or she is making a claim on the interest and attention of future viewers, a…

— Frank Gohlke

What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld…

— Aaron Siskind

The way I would describe a pictorial is that it is a picture that makes everybody say ‘Aaaaah,’ with five vowels when…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer…

— Ansel Adams

Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you…

— Robert Adams

It is a great honor for me to be compared to Henri Cartier-BressonBut I believe there is a very big difference in…

— Sebastiao Salgado

A photographer is a witness. He has a moral duty. Every picture must be true and honest. I believe a photographer's strength…

— Edouard Boubat

I was fooling around one day and looking at Yahoo! Jobs. I typed in "photo" and, of course, what comes up is…

— Jeff Vespa

I had met Michael Stipe, and he was such a kind person, and extremely understanding, so I asked him if he knew…

— Patti Smith

“To be a great photographer you had to see first and feel later.”

— Kristin Hannah

“A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.”

— Amit Kalantri

Just because you have a camera doesn't make you a photographer.

— Anonymous

Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.

— Frederick Sommer

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.

— Arthur Ashe

It's up to us as photographers to give voice to the natural world.

— Frans Lanting

a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.

— Vincent Van Gogh

There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

— Robert Heinecken