There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer. — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
Think like a photographer. Look at every vignette in your home like it's being shot for a shelter magazine and style accordingly. — Jonathan Adler Copy Share Image
It takes asking many questions from many perspectives to truly understand something. — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
I didn't think of what I was doing as political. To me it was a way to make the best out of… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
Before you shoot an irresistible subject, mute all your senses except sight to find out how much is left for the camera… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
We should think of a photographer as a Samurai who makes rituals, moves and gestures in order to develop his techniques and… — Alex Majoli Copy Share Image
The world was waiting to be full of discovery made(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned.you would… — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
A photographer kept shooting me every time I swung. I was very flattered until I found out he was from Field and… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses the essential… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Obviously, we can see what was in front of the camera, but if a photograph is honestly made, it's a bit of… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
I'm very lucky that I'm not a photographer for hire - people hire me for me. I go into every commercial work… — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
What some highbrows call rapport is nothing more than a mild flirtation between photographer and the girl on the other side of… — Sam Haskins Copy Share Image
With a short lens I can reveal the hidden things near at hand, with a long lens the hidden things far away.… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
I will be remembered when I'm in heaven. People won't remember my name, but they will know the photographer who did that… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Sven Schumann did an interview with photographer Wolfgang Tillmans in Berlin addressing the question: What is photography today when everyone is a… — Olivier Zahm Copy Share Image
There's always a time in any series of work where you get to a certain point and your work is going steadily… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands before our camera, to honor what is greater and… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Incidentally, part of a photographer’s gift should be with people. You can do some wonderful work if you know how to make… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
I read the other day that Minor White said it takes twenty years to become a photographer. I think that is a… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
If you are engaging rationality, you are already engaging a place that makes you unavailable. Only when I recognize that inspiration has… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
I find that when one has worked long enough, technical know-how becomes almost irrelevant. In photography, it's not difficult to reach a… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
The difference between an amateur and a professional photographer is that the amateur thinks the camera does the work. And they treat… — David Hemmings Copy Share Image
Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
“There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer” — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft. — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
