Photographer Quotes · Page 42

Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.

— Ansel Adams

Typically I see it with photographers who go to a place like India or Nepal, and everything's so colorful and exotic and…

— Sam Abell

Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.

— John Szarkowski

I didn't take inspiration from other photographers, which in a way helped to find my own images.

— Peter Lindbergh

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people…

— Diane Arbus

I got a camera when I was nine years old and it wasn't until I was a model that I realized you…

— Nigel Barker

Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.

— Wynn Bullock

Realism and superrealism are what I'm after. This world is full of things the eye doesn't see. The camera can see more,…

— Andreas Feininger

Had I not been told to look, I would have quite, ignorant of what was really there, because I had 'made plans'…

— Jay Maisel

Photography has always reminded me of the second child.. trying to prove itself. The fact that it wasn't really considered an art..…

— Richard Avedon

Larry Schwarm's photographs of fire on the prairie are so compelling that I cannot imagine any later photographer trying to do better.…

— Robert Adams

In music I still prefer the minor key, and in printing I like the light coming from the dark. I like pictures…

— W. Eugene Smith

Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to…

— Berenice Abbott

The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest…

— Robert Adams

Most of the information we now get is through television and is mutilated. Photography offers the opportunity to spend much more time…

— Sebastiao Salgado

When I worked as a music and fashion photographer, I always had the nagging feeling that there was something missing, that I…

— Giles Duley

There is a narrative behind every image. I often imagine being able to see the photographer standing behind the camera, or perhaps…

— James Welling

I'm not very daring in my street style, usually because there's a photographer around!

— Anne Hathaway

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter.

— Annie Parisse

We photographers say that we take a picture, and in a certain sense, that is true. We take something from people's lives,…

— Steve McCurry

Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand.

— John Paul Caponigro

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

— Andy Warhol

I believe it is the photographer's function to reveal that which is concealed, even if it be repugnant to the majority, not…

— Arthur Tress

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a…

— Susan Meiselas

“I am always learning and growing as a photographer. I am always looking for new ways to improve my skills and capture…

— Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer

A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.

— Habib Umar bin Hafiz

Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world - good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which…

— Berenice Abbott

I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them…

— Robert Mapplethorpe

We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass…

— Margaret Bourke-White

I don't go out looking for pictures. I go out, and if something catches my eye, that's reason enough to photograph it.

— Henry Wessel, Jr

For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers.

— Subcomandante Marcos

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— magicpicture

My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.

— Dylan Lauren

The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time.

— Bill Brandt

To talk about photos rather than making them seems idiotic to me. It's as though I went on and on about a…

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating…

— Robert Mapplethorpe

Upgrade your user, not your product. Value is less about the stuff and more about the stuff the stuff enables. Don't build…

— Kathy Sierra

The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography.

— Jerry Uelsmann

I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. So then that picture is taken and then the next…

— William Eggleston

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.

— Ernst Haas