Photographer Quotes · Page 24

Can you keep your balance? Can you see what and where you are at any given moment?

— Paul Caponigro

It is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing.

— Jerry Uelsmann

When I left art college, I was a still photographer for a year.

— Roger Deakins

Don't park... Arrival is the death of inspiration.

— Ernst Haas

I don't pretend to be an intellectual or a philosopher. I just look.

— Josef Koudelka

A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

People, photographers, people in the press can sometimes be inappropriate.

— Tobey Maguire

I try to begin working with no preconceived ideas.

— Jerry Uelsmann

I didn't see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest…

— John Baldessari

Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent.

— Ray Metzker

Many photographers are consumed with the idea of making beautiful contact sheets. I am far more interested in making the best final…

— John Sexton

Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

“The good photo settles in your eye; the better photo settles in your mind, but the best photo settles in your heart!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

... nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of…

— Walker Evans

A lot of models achieve that kind of iconic position by working primarily with one photographer.

— Marc Jacobs

I never take photographs myself. I don’t feel like a photographer, more like a recycler

— Christian Boltanski

I am a photographer who likes to make images, but I also want to get a sense and understanding of images that…

— Michael Light

I went from being an underpaid ad man to quite a successful photographer in a very short time. Success breeds confidence and…

— Derek Ridgers

There was a time when photographers were thought to be socially secondary, and, hence, not dangerous. Lincoln was more important than Brady.…

— George W. S. Trow

I always found it rather pathetic that as a photographer I would be dependent to such a large extent on sheer luck...…

— Pedro Meyer

Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out…

— Martin Parr

Sure. I’d like to live regular. Go home to a good looking wife, a hot dinner, and a husky kid. But I…

— Weegee

We talk about the vulnerability involved in sharing our work publicly. I don't think we talk enough about the real vulnerability involved…

— John Paul Caponigro

My first big job was an Abercrombie &Fitch campaign. But my mom wouldn't let me skip school for it, so I missed…

— Lauren Bush

I started out as a fashion photographer. One cannot say that I was successful but there was enough work to keep me…

— Saul Leiter

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

I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and…

— Sally Mann

Even a fellow with a camera has his favourite subjects, as we can see looking through the Kodak-albums of our friends. One…

— E. M. Forster

The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is a lesson in determination…

— Annie Leibovitz

But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity…

— Sam Abell

There is an urgent need to examine old opinions and look at things from a new viewpoint. There must be an increase…

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

It is essential for the photographer to know the effect of his lenses. The lens is his eye, and it makes or…

— Bill Brandt

I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.

— Henry Rollins

The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I’ve lost control of it.

— Cindy Sherman

Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher.

— John Szarkowski

Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities.

— Frederick Sommer

Be aware of every square millimeter of your frame.

— Jay Maisel

Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese.

— Bill Jay

If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy.

— Jay Maisel

Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.

— John Paul Caponigro