Photographer Quotes · Page 37

Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.

— Robert Adams

A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work.

— Gregory Heisler

Every fashion photographer is completely different; the fact that they are so different is what makes it fun. You don't want to…

— Lara Stone

I met a photographer who agreed to give me a few lessons; in exchange, I had to pose naked for him.

— Sophie Calle

A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder…

— Robert Doisneau

I get photographers hiding in my bushes. We're way past autographs. We're into being stalked and followed.

— Jennifer Lawrence

Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer.

— Berenice Abbott

I was a Valley girl; I hung out, and through a photographer friend. I met Peter Douglas, who was one of Kirk…

— Theresa Russell

The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets…

— Gordon Parks

It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a…

— Lee Friedlander

My father had wanted to be a commercial artist. He got as far as being a photographer in the army in World…

— David Salle

I always wanted to be a photographer. While I was at school, I got a lab-monkey holiday job in the darkrooms at…

— Ben Schott

New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear. To find these images is to…

— Lisette Model

I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography—that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as…

— Joel Meyerowitz

When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking…

— Saul Leiter

I was in middle school at a bat mitzvah, and a fashion photographer, Suzy Gorman, came up to me and asked me…

— Devon Windsor

At the beginning, Edo was a photographer, and I was more of a talent scout and doing styling and modelling. Then all…

— Maripol

It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all,…

— John Pfahl

I began to wonder - I knew I was an artist or wanted to be one - but I was wondering whether…

— Walker Evans

It's important to understand it's OK to control the subject. If most editorial stories were photographed just as they are, editors would…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

I've noticed that the people who started on film still have the ability to see the person in front of them. Whereas…

— Keira Knightley

A photograph records both the thing in front of the camera and the conditions of its making... A photograph is also a…

— James Welling

And if you can find out something about the laws of your own growth and vision as well as those of photography…

— Paul Strand

We are one human race, and there must be understanding among all men. For those who look at the problems of today,…

— Sebastiao Salgado

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given.

— Eve Arnold

I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone.

— Saoirse Ronan

All the good pictures that came so easily now make the next set of pictures virtually impossible in your mind.

— Sally Mann

Teachers don't work in the summer, and photographers don't shoot in in the middle of the day.

— John Loengard

It's not just when you shoot, or what you shot, or where you shoot, it's the combination of the three.

— Jay Maisel

[The] arresting of time is photography's unique capacity, and the decision of when to click the shutter is the photographer's chief responsibility.

— Janet Malcolm

I fell in love with traveling and thought being a photographer would be an interesting way to travel and make a living.

— Peter Menzel

When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.

— Patrick Demarchelier

My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to…

— W. Eugene Smith

The immortal photographers will be straightforward photographers, those who do not rely on tricks or special techniques.

— Philippe Halsman

Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those…

— John Paul Caponigro

We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for…

— Minor White

The whole world is there for you. Gifts will happen, but only if you are patient with life itself, the shooting process,…

— Jay Maisel

In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis.

— Minor White

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

— Sam Abell

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as…

— Garry Winogrand