Photographer Quotes · Page 16

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.

— Edward Weston

The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.

— Jerry Uelsmann

I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.

— Garry Winogrand

“Always seeing something, never seeing nothing, being photographer”

— Walter De Mulder

If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

— Chuck Close

A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer.

— Graciela Iturbide

Making any statement of your feelings is risky. It's just like making pictures.

— Joel Meyerowitz

The best way for photographers to become rich and famous is to go into another field.

— Bill Jay

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

— Imogen Cunningham

I don't know the American photographers as well, but I admit I love Ansel Adams. His landscapes are so crisp.

— Vilmos Zsigmond

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school.…

— Imogen Cunningham

Don't look for "depth" but instead search for subject aspects which prove the presence of depth.

— Andreas Feininger

I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.

— Sebastiao Salgado

“A camera is just a medium to capture what you have in your vision, and vision is something that cannot be bought.”

— Neeraj Agnihotri

You sort of have to be always aware, even when you're not thinking of shooting. That's when the best stuff happens.

— Jay Maisel

I hate to say I'm a photographer, because I learned photography as I went along. But I also hate to say I'm…

— Vik Muniz

I always prefer photographing in available light – or Rembrandt-light I like to call it – so you get the natural modulations…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further than appreciating a picture that…

— William Eggleston

The photographic image has great possibilities. The magical photograph attempts to go beyond the immediate context of the recorded experience into the…

— Arthur Tress

I've had shows as a painter, as a photographer, I've done shows as a sculptor. I've done a lot of different things…

— Norman Reedus

I have to say, taking photographs is such an instantaneous act. The recognition and the acting on the recognition, depending on your…

— Joel Meyerowitz

As a good picture would come, I would never know exactly what I had done. When you did see it, it would…

— Emmet Gowin

We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a…

— Dave Eggers

Theres no such thing as Flickr Pro because today, with cameras as pervasive as they are, theres no such thing, really, as…

— Marissa Mayer

The most dangerous thing I've ever encountered was a run-in with Boko Haram around 2007 in a small town in Nigeria. I…

— Eliza Griswold

I don't want to be known as the guy who always takes his shirt off... I've done a lot of photo shoots…

— Kellan Lutz

The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five…

— Kurt Vonnegut

When the photographer Philippe Halsman said, 'Jump,' no one asked how high. People simply pushed off or leapt up to the extent…

— Philippe Halsman

[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such…

— Eve Babitz

The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the…

— Paul Strand

Sometimes a photographer is a passenger, sometimes a person who stays in one place. What he watches changes constantly, but his watching…

— Shomei Tomatsu

It's a lot easier to take pictures if you always have the camera with you.

— Jay Maisel

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

— Elliott Erwitt

It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.

— Ansel Adams

I am an artist first and a photographer second.

— Andres Serrano

The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me.

— Joyce Tenneson

The most valuable things in a life are a man's memories. And they are priceless.

— Andre Kertesz

My dad was a photographer, so we had all these studio portraits of us.

— Timothy Simons