If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
All photography is Pop, and all photographers are crazy... they feel guilty since they don't have to do very much - just… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
If you can imagine photography in the guise of a woman and you’d ask her what she thought of Stieglitz, she’d say:… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
We don't have only two eyes; we have hundreds of wonderful eyes, because there are hundreds of wonderful photographers! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times? — David Byrne Copy Share Image
The only way to understand something is to be confronted by something that is difficult to understand. — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
I wanted to be Brooke Shields, and my mother was an aspiring photographer, so I was, of course, the only one who… — Stephanie Seymour Copy Share Image
If it doesn’t have ambiguity, don’t bother to take it. I love that, that aspect of photography—the mendacity of photography—it’s got to… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
I'm a photographer and my pictures are used in advertising campaigns. But I don't do advertising. Do you hear me? I take… — Oliviero Toscani Copy Share Image
It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they… — Minor White Copy Share Image
If you look at photographers who say, "I hate digital photography," they all use Photoshop, even if it's to make the sky… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
Some of the young photographers today enter photography where I leave off. My "grandchildren" astound me. What I worked for they seem… — Minor White Copy Share Image
Before he came to Spain, photographers lined up in the discotheques, but they are still there waiting for him. Ronaldo is an… — Jorge Valdano Copy Share Image
Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it… — David Hurn Copy Share Image
Books on scientific photography with such beauty, breadth, and insight are rare. Felice Frankel's Envisioning Science is chock full of mind-boggling images… — Clifford A. Pickover Copy Share Image
Now one does not think during creative work: any more than one thinks when driving a car. One has a background of… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
The photographer discovers himself/herself being photographed and we can guess he is uncomfortable. Unsuccessfully he/she tries to recompose his posture and to… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
Photography is not easy. You know it takes a painter or a sculpture or a musician years to perfect their technique. Then… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
For spiritual companions I have had the many artists who have relied on nature to help shape their imagination. And their most… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Over the years I have photographed thousands of people. I have never stopped being curious and trying to discover new worlds. I… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I am benefiting from someone else's tragedy. This idea haunts me. It's… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
I'm not particularly good at coping with it. I just cope. I just leave my brain at the door and just stand… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
A photographer doesn't always make a perfect frame, but he knows when and how to make one. And this is what actually… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing… — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
In England, I'm already labeled a rock photographer, which is a little insulting, because I'm not a rock photographer at all. — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848) — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
If I could find them (assemblages) in nature I would photograph them. I make them because through photography I have a knowledge… — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
I can't talk about my style. It us kind of difficult for me. I don't like styles. I only like taking photos… — Andre Kertesz Copy Share Image
Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation. — Marc Riboud Copy Share Image
Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer. — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
I gravitate towards places where humans have been and are no more, to the edge of man's influence, where the elements are… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories. — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them. — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
Photographers undervalue the use of the wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography. — Ralph Steiner Copy Share Image
Fall in love. Every day. With everything. With life. If you can fall in love, you can be a photographer. I think… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
You will, in time, see and show others not just the superficial, but the details, the meanings, and the implications of all… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
