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
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
I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
My Dad took a workshop from a photographer who worked at the Toledo Blade, a newspaper I delivered. I knew this photographer's… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I’ve always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they’re… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the… — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image
There's a really brilliant photographer who's deceased who in my sort of fashion and modelling days, I was fortunate enough to get… — Gabriel Mann Copy Share Image
I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
If I could be said to have any kind of aesthetic, it’s sort of a magpie aesthetic—I just go and pick up… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
See, I think our whole society is much too problem-solving oriented. It is far more interesting to participate in 'problem creation'... You… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
The best photographers are super nice people and that its not a coincidence. Great photographers genuinely like people, and people can feel… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
A good print is really essential. I want to take strong documentary photographs that are as good technically as any of the… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
Fine-art photography is a very small world associated with galleries, museums, and university art programs. It's not like rock music; the products… — Mark Klett Copy Share Image
It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
I've never been the type of photographer to live with people I photograph. You know, shoot heroin with them, that kind of… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
Snapshots that have been taken of me working show something I was not aware of at all, that over and over again… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
I print giclees for artists and photographers for a livelihood. My original idea was to somehow combine the two. — Donald Lambert Copy Share Image
No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
If I am dissatisfied, it's simply because good photos are few and far between. A good photo is a miracle. — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
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
I'm a head-shot photographer. I have people come to my apartment, and I take their head shots. — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers. — Charlotte Cotton Copy Share Image
The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've always believed a great photographer should concentrate more on depth of feeling and less on depth of field. — Max Dupain Copy Share Image
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things. — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
My advice is: learn from the best or teach yourself. And do not bother at all if you do not have an… — David Hurn Copy Share Image
It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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