Photographer Quotes · Page 25

It is necessary to like loneliness to be photographer

— Raymond Depardon

You have to let the past successes go, or you'll never be able to see anew.

— Jay Maisel

I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself...

— Edward Steichen

If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.

— Linda McCartney

Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.

— Bruno Barbey

Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists.

— Arnold Newman

If a picture is worth a thousand words, photographers are worth a million.

— Tupac Shakur

I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict,

— Giles Duley

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea…

— Susan Sontag

If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

— Garry Winogrand

Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.

— Ansel Adams

To be a good hairdresser, you have to understand what the vision is of the designer or the photographer and then sort…

— Guido Palau

I think I have been able to eliminate the idea of a third person: the Intruding Photographer.

— Ralph Eugene Meatyard

I wasn't imposing my presence on anyone, which is very important for a would- be journalist. I stayed back. Always let people…

— Elliott Erwitt

[My work as a photographer is a] mission to document endangered species and landscapes in order to show a world worth saving.

— Joel Sartore

“What do we feel when we look at a good photograph? We just want to be there, right at the exact moment…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

So the problem for the poetic artist or the photographer is the common problem of continuous attentiveness, continuous attempts to notice what…

— Allen Ginsberg

I don't have a favorite photo. As a photographer, I have attachments to each image. Not the one photo: the experience of…

— Michael Muller

As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art.

— Susan Sontag

I am constantly torn between the attitude of the conscientious journalist who is a recorder and interpreter of the facts and of…

— W. Eugene Smith

I had been a fashion photographer for over ten years, but I'd always been dissatisfied with what I was doing. It was…

— Giles Duley

Photographers - idiots, of which there are so many - say, "Oh, if only I had a Nikon or a Leica, I…

— Andreas Feininger

The camera only facilitates the taking. The photographer must do the giving in order to transform and transcend ordinary reality. The problem…

— Ernst Haas

... the photographer is a thief who chooses what he steals (which, at this stage of the crisis, is a luxury) and…

— Subcomandante Marcos

At the beginning of my career, a more senior photographer told me to shoot stories on women and I didn't want to.…

— Olivia Arthur

“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

I am not very interested in extraordinary angles. They can be effective on certain occasions, but I do not feel the necessity…

— Bill Brandt

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

The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing…

— Berenice Abbott

It never seemed important to me that my photos be published. It's important that I take them. There were periods where I…

— Josef Koudelka

The photographer sees the world as a child sees the bits of glass in a kaleidoscope. If he has a camera with…

— Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

I work in several different groups of pictures which act on and with each other - ranging from several abstracted manners to…

— Ralph Eugene Meatyard

You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.

— Eve Arnold

I'm not a good photographer. I just capture the highlights of our rotten world.

— Ritu Ghatourey

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels.

— Ansel Adams

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

— Gordon Parks

The pictures are everywhere. If you're open, they will find you.

— Jay Maisel

“I am not a photographer , I am a canon owner !!!”

— Walaa Walkademagmal

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.

— Frederick Sommer

I never claimed to be a great photographer.

— Marty Stuart