The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer. — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
It is a rare photographer who can take a detached, cold-blooded view of his work. — Arthur Rothstein Copy Share Image
I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer. — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph. — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols. — Vilem Flusser Copy Share Image
What matters most to me is to take photographs; to continue taking them and not to repeat myself. To go further, to… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
I think that the photos that we like were made when the photographer knew how to disappear. If there were a secret,… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
It's not how a photographer looks at the world that is important. It's their intimate relationship with it. — Antoine D'Agata Copy Share Image
The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler. — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form. — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
What's been important with Flickr is the community that's been there from the beginning and the serious photographers that are there creating… — David Filo Copy Share Image
I believe that we photographers don't benefit very much with answers from other photographers. What is more beneficial is to ask questions… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
My argument against the set-up picture is that it leaves the matter of content to the imagination of the photographer, a faculty… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
I can't tell you how many reshoots I've done from, you know, famous photographers who really love just to shoot models and… — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
In a way, it's like the photographer always has his vision of me. The pictures that I'm known for are not really… — Kate Moss Copy Share Image
The thing itself is never just out there in the world waiting to be framed by the photographer's Leica; rather, it is… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence,… — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
Always, when the words art and artistic are applied to my photographic work, I am disagreeably affected. This is due, surely, to… — Tina Modotti Copy Share Image
Composition is what's similar between being photographer and director. As a photographer, you're sort of doing everything - you're directing the lights… — Russell James Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, Carter Smith is an insanely talented photographer, but as a director he approached it more from a story… — Cameron Monaghan Copy Share Image
I don’t use an exposure meter. My personal advice is: Spend the money you would put into such an instrument for film.… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I am not very interested in extraordinary angles. They can be effective on certain occasions, but I do not feel the necessity… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
“I think the world..the world continues just goes on doing what it does whether I take a picture or not. My art--it's… — Whitney Scharer Copy Share Image
When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously. — Minor White Copy Share Image
I believe that you've got to love your work so much that it is all you want to do. — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
It is a serious job being a portrait photographer, which is how I saw myself. — Astrid Kirchherr Copy Share Image
