The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past. — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done. — Andre Kertesz Copy Share Image
Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience. — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I would always cast Meryl Streep for everything. I would do with something inspired by the work of Guy Bourdin, my favorite… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
Photographers want to reinvent you, to take you somewhere else, to show you in a completely different way. They look at your… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
The aim and end of the artist is not truth exactly, much less fact; it is effect... There is no doubt he… — Henry Peach Robinson Copy Share Image
Every successful photograph, except for lucky shots, begins with an idea and a plan. The more precisely a photographer knows what it… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot.… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. It is the photographer's job to get… — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
I try to photograph people's spirits and thoughts. As to the soul-taking by the photographer, I don't feel I take away, but… — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
I'm really very concerned with helping to create an attitude of freedom and daring toward the craft of photography. — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters. — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
“If you think buying a DSLR has made you a photographer, don't ever buy a Stethoscope.” — Ketan Waghmare Copy Share Image
When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each… — Minor White Copy Share Image
I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
The authentic thing is to follow your heart, your instincts, your emotions. If you located yourself in an idea, your life would… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
“An excellent photograph is the one which has excellently captured an excellent moment!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they're doing, or how their hair looks. Nobody see the person… — Erica O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time. — Brassai Copy Share Image
“Why you like photography so much? Because it's just the camera and me showing everyone else what we can see. It's telling… — Lindsey Kelk Copy Share Image
... to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
A person cannot learn to be a photographer. He can only cultivate what he already has. I try to make people aware… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish... This should make amateurs the happiest… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I… — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object. — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe. — Nobuyoshi Araki Copy Share Image
Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
There's this way that photography is always about going out searching. I'm not the kind of a photographer who can photograph my… — Justine Kurland Copy Share Image
A photographer doesn't just copy reality, but communicates to others what he or she experiences. — Walter Rosenblum Copy Share Image
Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
Evolution in action: First, God said, 'Let there be light.' Then, he created two nude models. Now we have photographers. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
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