Photographer Quotes · Page 34

I can’t stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they…

— W. Eugene Smith

I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)

— Danny Lyon

You have to pick the right tool for the point you're trying to make and there is no one solution.

— Jay Maisel

What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment thats gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer

— Ken Jennings

All the photographers were trying to just get me off, which was hilarious. But it was very, very amusing.

— Bella Heathcote

“I still have a photo, taken ... by Eugen Bavcar, a Slovenian photographer -who is blind.”

— Jacques Bonnet

No image, however accomplished, could have captured the agonizing poignancy of that moment. It was a moment to be lived, not framed,…

— Anonymous

In these times aesthetic taste is dismissed as irrelevant. Well, I am perverse, for that reason I am more drawn to it…

— Deborah Turbeville

I see no difference between my pictures that people consider amusing and the rest. To me, it's all serious work - they're…

— Elliott Erwitt

I have no chips on my shoulder. I like to be constructive. As I have said, I have inspired many persons to…

— Weegee

The moment always dictates in my work. What I feel, I do. This is the most important thing for me. Everybody can…

— Andre Kertesz

My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify and to give emphasis to form with the…

— Ruth Bernhard

I have often photographed when I am not in tune with nature but the photographs look as if I had been. So…

— Minor White

[Elsa Dorfman]was well known. Certainly in the Boston area, she's well known as a portrait photographer. My wife always wanted to meet…

— Errol Morris

Photographers don't need to be aggressive. Some are. Henry Benson is aggressive - but then he's from Fleet Street. If you can…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

I think self-portraits are very difficult. I’ve always seen mine as straightforward, very stripped down, hair pulled back. No shirt. Whatever light…

— Annie Leibovitz

I think we, as a fasion industry, need to hold people accountable for their actions. I want people to realize that models…

— Sara Sampaio

'Ornithologists concluded that migratory birds take hundreds of naps as they fly; they also practice unilateral eye closure, in which one eye…

— Bill Jay

The decisive moment, the popular Henri Cartier-Bresson approach to photography in which a scene is stopped and depicted at a certain point…

— Fred Ritchin

Anthropology... has always been highly dependent upon photography... As the use of still photography - and moving pictures - has become increasingly…

— Margaret Mead

My photographs are proof of what happened. When I go to Russia, sometimes I meet ex-soldiers... They say, 'We came to liberate…

— Josef Koudelka

I was photographing the photographer Brassaï. He had very prominent eyes, like a frog's. As I focused my lens, he brought his…

— John Loengard

The principal thing is the question of how our culture views age: that old is ugly. Take a photographer like Mapplethorpe. Every…

— John Coplans

I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.

— Bill Eppridge

I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just…

— Dorothea Lange

One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family; I…

— Cornell Capa

I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing.

— Joyce Tenneson

Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.

— Bill Jay

“A photograph is a frozen moment, but a great photographer captures the soul of that moment.”

— Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

— Catherine Opie

It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they…

— Barbara Kruger

For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult, but after that things get better.

— Robert Doisneau

I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Main thing is just to remember that hard work got me here and only hard work will keep me here.

— Brandon Stanton

I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch…

— Harry Callahan

There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.

— Janet Malcolm

I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over…

— Annie Leibovitz

The more light you have in an image, the less drama you get. The details start taking over; the mystery is all…

— Jay Maisel

My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.

— Alexander McQueen