Photographer Quotes · Page 30

I'm not a photographer, so I need all the help I can get when it comes to make a picture look cool.

— Hunter Hayes

It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera

— Sebastiao Salgado

The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a…

— Ansel Adams

Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst.

— Margaret Mead

I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'

— David LaChapelle

There weren't paparazzi standing outside. There weren't all these photographers. People really didn't know what fashion was and what was happening in…

— Roopal Patel

I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.

— Berenice Abbott

My visual quest is driven by a desire to create a universe capable of supporting feelings and ideas.

— Jerry Uelsmann

It used to bug me that I couldn't even afford to take my family for a proper holiday. I didn't have any…

— Boman Irani

I used to have this notion when I was a kid that the minute you said anything, it was no longer true.…

— Diane Arbus

“In my stolen photographs -- for the photographer must be a thief, he must steal instants of other people's time to make…

— Salman Rushdie

We feel more emotion... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer,…

— Chris Marker

A photographer's art is more in his perceptions than his execution. In a painter, I think the perception is only the first…

— Jay Maisel

As an artist, illustrator, and photographer, most of my daily work was formed around the Art & Entertainment business, which was about…

— John Van Hamersveld

There are many forms of photography. I consider myself simply a recorder of that which I find of interest around me. I…

— David Hurn

Photographers encode their concepts as photographic images so as to give others information, so as to produce models for them and thereby…

— Vilem Flusser

I have always been fascinated by the life cycle, the way skin metamorphoses over time. I am mesmerized by skin and that's…

— Joyce Tenneson

There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my 'deeper' work. Fashion is where I make my living. I'm…

— Richard Avedon

You find that you have to do many things, more than just lift up the camera and shoot, and so you get…

— Jay Maisel

Bill Blass came in all the time, and I would make him roast chicken with spring potatoes and spring porcini with spring…

— Daniel Boulud

The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from…

— Margaret Bourke-White

Guys don't understand great art. They don't care that sometimes the camera has power beyond the photographer to record emotion that only…

— Joan Bauer

[Women photographers] provide an inspiring reminder to all women that the choice to see, or be seen, is ours. We live in…

— Diane Keaton

The purpose of all art is to cause a deep and emotion, also one that is entertaining or pleasing. Out of the…

— W. Eugene Smith

Basically I'm always looking for things. Any good photographer should always be looking for something, you know.

— Albert Watson

I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera.

— David Hurn

The camera is to the Photographer what the pen is to the Writer: a tool to express a vision

— Myriam Leforestier

I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.

— Anonymous

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in…

— Richard Avedon

The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism.

— Cornell Capa

What you're shooting at doesn't matter, the real question is: 'Does it give you joy?'

— Jay Maisel

Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and maybe the profession will come after.

— Christopher Anderson

We know photographers make frames, but we deeply believe they can also create frameworks.

— Susan Meiselas

Sometimes without shooting a picture germinates in your head. Other times, you keep taking pictures of the same thing and watch the…

— Jay Maisel

Remember that most people (those who are not photographers) don't even see the things that you missed. Many don't even look. Ergo,…

— Jay Maisel

A creative photographer is one who either captures mystery or reveals things, everything else is useless

— Raghu Rai

“Time is the sole photographer of all the times, from the Big Bang till the possible Big Crunch!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you're not feeling very sexy.

— Cindy Margolis

I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years.

— Graham Nash