Photographer Quotes · Page 23

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.

— Jock Sturges

If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning

— Ruth Bernhard

Surfaces simultaneously reveal and conceal.

— John Paul Caponigro

I was a photographer. That's how I began my career, behind the camera.

— Shweta Tripathi

Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been?

— Frederick Sommer

The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.

— Robert Adams

To me, pictures are like blintzes - ya gotta get 'em while they're hot.

— Weegee

When you're a fashion photographer, you must inspire a dream,

— Patrick Demarchelier

Many photographers live in a dream world of beautiful backgrounds. It wouldn’t hurt them to get a taste of reality to wake…

— Weegee

If I already have a vision, my work is almost done. The rest is a technical problem.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

Words of wisdom for every photographer: 'Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking'. So said Goethe.

— Bill Jay

We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.

— Ernst Haas

I've had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or for film posters.

— Keira Knightley

When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

— Marina Warner

I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.

— Harry Callahan

I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just…

— Elliott Erwitt

I can be an artist a posteriori, not a priori. If my pictures tell the story, our story, human story, then in…

— Sebastiao Salgado

I've got to get the ultimate in composition today. or I've got to get the ultimate in light, I'll stay here until…

— Paul Caponigro

The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a…

— Carine Roitfeld

There are many schools of painting. Why should there not be many schools of photographic art? There is hardly a right and…

— Alfred Stieglitz

There was a time when one looked over one's shoulder with an ironical smile at the photographer and when photography as a…

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for…

— Edward Weston

In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or…

— Garry Winogrand

When you're with people that are aware of the fact that you're a photographer, they'll say, "Oh, look at that! That's something…

— Ari Marcopoulos

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

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

I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can

— John Sexton

Several people feel I have photographed God. May be.

— Alfred Stieglitz

Find the one thing you’re good at and FOCUS on it.

— Joyce Tenneson

Photographers, like kids, should be seen and not heard.

— Bill Jay

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

— John Szarkowski

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

— Lauren Greenfield

“You can capture me with your beauty, only if you are a brilliant photographer.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Take your camera off automatic. You are the photographer.

— Steve Coleman