Photographer Quotes · Page 27

Teachers don't work in the summer, and photographers don't shoot in in the middle of the day.

— John Loengard

It's not just when you shoot, or what you shot, or where you shoot, it's the combination of the three.

— Jay Maisel

[The] arresting of time is photography's unique capacity, and the decision of when to click the shutter is the photographer's chief responsibility.

— Janet Malcolm

It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.

— Diane Arbus

Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked…

— Susan Sontag

Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.

— Robert Adams

A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work.

— Gregory Heisler

Every fashion photographer is completely different; the fact that they are so different is what makes it fun. You don't want to…

— Lara Stone

My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the…

— Sam Abell

By some special graciousness of fate I am deposited - as all good photographers like to be - in the right place…

— Margaret Bourke-White

... we photographers are nothing but a pack of crooks, thieves and voyeurs. We are to be found everywhere we are not…

— Brassai

A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of…

— Alexandra Kerry

Every time I take a photo, it goes into SnapSeed. Even if it's just a price tag on something, it still goes…

— Hunter Hayes

Photography's a case of keeping all the pores of the skin open, as well as the eyes. A lot of photographers today…

— Don McCullin

My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O'Neill, who is a photographer,…

— Michael Caine

Technically, I have not changed very much. Ask my assistants. They'll tell you, I am the easiest photographer to work with. I…

— Helmut Newton

The way I would describe a pictorial is that it is a picture that makes everybody say ‘Aaaaah,’ with five vowels when…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer…

— Ansel Adams

Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you…

— Robert Adams

“Some individuals came right out and accused me of being a Neo-Orientalist (in a pejorative Edward Said sense of the term). So…

— Waswo X Waswo

The flow of people in a setting, their changing relationships to each other and their environment, and their constantly changing expressions and…

— Constantine Manos

I was working in this very bombastic style. I didn’t really know about style. I didn’t think about it: I did what…

— David LaChapelle

“My studio team and I approached the creation of this series with enthusiasm, wit, sincerity and sometimes more than a dash of…

— Waswo X Waswo

A lot of people love Tarantino’s films because they’re spectacular, they’re beautiful, they’re wonderful. He hires the best group of artists -…

— Demian Bichir

I met a photographer who agreed to give me a few lessons; in exchange, I had to pose naked for him.

— Sophie Calle

A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder…

— Robert Doisneau

I get photographers hiding in my bushes. We're way past autographs. We're into being stalked and followed.

— Jennifer Lawrence

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

— Berenice Abbott

The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things.

— Frederick Sommer

My advice is: learn from the best or teach yourself. And do not bother at all if you do not have an…

— David Hurn

I'm a head-shot photographer. I have people come to my apartment, and I take their head shots.

— Colman Domingo

We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers.

— Charlotte Cotton

The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the…

— Jay Maisel

If I'd had the nerve, I'd have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn't, I became a photographer.

— Man Ray

I've always believed a great photographer should concentrate more on depth of feeling and less on depth of field.

— Max Dupain

I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.

— Edward Weston

I print giclees for artists and photographers for a livelihood. My original idea was to somehow combine the two.

— Donald Lambert

If I am dissatisfied, it's simply because good photos are few and far between. A good photo is a miracle.

— Josef Koudelka

No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a…

— Bill Brandt

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to…

— Edward Weston