Photographer Quotes · Page 20

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

— Eudora Welty

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

— Sam Abell

My father was a keen photographer; he had his own darkroom.

— Grayson Perry

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

— Edward Steichen

A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs.

— Joel Sternfeld

Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.

— David Bailey

There are no photographs while I'm reloading .

— Garry Winogrand

The photographer is filled with doubt. Nothing will soothe him.

— Raymond Depardon

As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.

— Annie Leibovitz

I think just about everything has been tackled, but it may be that things will be done again, only better and differently.

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked.

— Jay Maisel

Believing in one’s own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder.

— Cindy Sherman

My mom was a photographer and whenever they needed a baby for a modelling job, she'd stick me in front of the…

— Alyson Hannigan

There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.

— Ruth Bernhard

Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I was going round the world searching for an interesting place, when I realized that the place that I was in was…

— Emmet Gowin

You existed. You existed now as a fractal. Definition: A fractal is generally a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be…

— David Levithan

I was always into the music. Music, in general, saved my life. But the fame part... I would look up, see what…

— Barry Manilow

Here's the beauty of a camera: you don't have to come up with words for what you're looking at... Maybe another angle…

— Barbara Abercrombie

I read like a crazy person, I play the piano, and I'm a photographer. I always say my photography keeps me sane.…

— Alaina Huffman

I was an amateur - I am an amateur - and I intend to stay an amateur. To me an amateur photographer…

— Erwin Blumenfeld

The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation - not where the action is taking place, but where…

— Lawrence Schiller

It comes down to risk, again and again. If you risk coming out, if you risk making pictures that aren’t good, you…

— Joel Meyerowitz

In 1968 I frequently would sit in a photo booth and practice self mirror images which I then documented photographically. Curious types…

— Arnulf Rainer

I like to look at pictures, all kinds. And all those things you absorb come out subconsciously one way or another. You'll…

— Robert Mapplethorpe

Photographers should make three or four prints from one negative and then crop them differently. When I was art director at Harper's…

— Alexey Brodovitch

I seem to walk in the world as two people. The normal everyday-me is as preoccupied, unobservant and oblivious to visual clues…

— Bill Jay

Making pictures is a very simple act. There is no great secret in photography...schools are a bunch of crap. You just need…

— Elliott Erwitt

Once I came out in college I just have always been out and at work with pretty much everybody. My wife and…

— Lydia Polgreen

I think you reveal yourself by what you choose to photograph, but I prefer photographs that tell more about the subject. There's…

— Mary Ellen Mark

“The sight of this woman infringing on the privacy of others so aggressively and casually sent revulsion through my entire being. What…

— Waswo X. Waswo

Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s…

— Duane Michals

To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

— Weegee

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed,

— Garry Winogrand

I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

— Berenice Abbott

I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.

— Berkeley Breathed

It’s a very weird thing being a photographer.

— Danny Lyon

I wanted to be the photographer of happiness.

— Malick Sidibe

Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference

— Robert Frank

I talk a lot about photography. It's cheap becuase my supply always exceeds demand.

— Bill Jay