Photographer Quotes · Page 31

For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life.

— Wynn Bullock

My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.

— Nick Park

Human vision is untrustworthy, subjective and selective. Camera vision is total and non - objective.

— Andreas Feininger

I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.

— Alec Soth

I was discovered by a photographer. I literally was in the right place at the right time.

— Denise Bidot

They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.

— Beau Bridges

I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.

— Graciela Iturbide

To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the…

— Edward Steichen

“You know zat another term for an iconographer would be ‘photographer’? From the old word ‘photus’ in Latation, vhich means—” “‘To prance…

— Terry Pratchett

Alexander Liberman was very smart, very elegant. At the end, he didn't have much patience with me because I was a young,…

— Jerry Schatzberg

Sometimes I think the only memories I have are those that I’ve created around photographs of me as a child. Maybe I’m…

— Sally Mann

I started photography more or less by accident when I was already 27. I was taken on as an assistant by a…

— Peter Lindbergh

My idea was that if I took a picture of somebody and years later, or whenever, they would die and if someone…

— David LaChapelle

Each photographer has their own vibe and presence that they bring to their shoots. Steven Meisel is a teacher. He teaches everyone…

— Kylie Bax

When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can…

— Edward Weston

Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical…

— Edward Steichen

What I want is the world to remember the problems and the people I photograph. What I want is to create a…

— Sebastiao Salgado

On the same Australian trip, I brought back a pair [of Ugg] for my then boyfriend who was a photographer. He wore…

— Alexa Chung

I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative…

— W. Eugene Smith

A lot of the challenge and the reason for the success of those one-shot photographers is that their pictures almost have to…

— Gregory Heisler

I’m no part time dilettante photographer, unlike the bartenders, shoe salesmen, floorwalkers plumbers, barbers, grocery clerks and chiropractors whose great hobby is…

— Weegee

... I just feel impotent - I don't know which way to start or turn. You know what they say about a…

— Tina Modotti

The Latin American photographer has the possibility, and the means, for naming the things of our world, for demonstrating that there is…

— Edmundo Desnoes

As a landscape photographer we should be open to possibilities, for one thing often leads to another.

— Michael Kenna

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the…

— Annie Leibovitz

I don't want anyone to appreciate the light or the palette of tones. I want my pictures to inform, to provoke discussion…

— Sebastiao Salgado

[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation.

— Joel Meyerowitz

When you're modeling you're actually acting for the camera and the photographer. It's more fun, too because there are no lines to…

— Cindy Margolis

The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.

— Richard Avedon

Don't overthink things in front of you. I fit moves you, shoot it. If it's fun, shoot it. If you've never seen…

— Jay Maisel

People say to me, "Who's your favorite kind of photographer?" Or "Who would be your favorite photographer to have in a workshop?"…

— Sam Abell

The thing about being a photographer that's so cool is that you get to participate, but you also get to disappear. The…

— Ryan McGinley

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.

— Matt Hardy

I'm very lucky that I've worked mainly with two amazing photographers in David Sims and Steven Meisel.

— Guido Palau

The work I care about is terribly simple. I observe. I try to entertain. But above all I want my pictures to…

— Elliott Erwitt

I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends…

— Bill Brandt

What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.

— Eve Arnold

Although the photographer and the art thief were close friends, neither had ever taken the other's picture.

— George Carlin

The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.

— Duane Michals