Outstanding past work in photography, and in fact in all the arts, is very important to today's photographers. But it should be… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
To me, photography is 90% a retrospective experience. There's the part of pursuing the image, and exposing the film, but once you… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer cannot… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls.… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
My photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. My prints show the… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
My advice to photographers is to get out there in the field and take photographs but also if they are students to… — Martine Franck Copy Share Image
When I'm approaching a water jump, with dozens of photographers waiting for me to fall in, and hundreds of spectators wondering what's… — Anne, Princess Royal Copy Share Image
Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I like to move as much as possible and look at reflections, weird angles, subjects from airplanes and cranes. I feel sorry… — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
Max Kozloff said to me one day, ‘You’re not really a photographer. You do photography, but you do it for your own… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
When I first started to take photographs in Czechoslovakia, I met this old gentleman, this old photographer, who told me a few… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
I can one day do dance, and the next maybe do a movie, and then maybe I can choreograph, or work with… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
You know, I must really work hard. I'm in the last stage of my artistic life. But I'm so busy that I… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the… — Michael Bergin Copy Share Image
When assignments were over, photography continued. One of the primary reasons it did was that I wanted and needed to have fresh… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I have always done the opposite of what I was trained to do... Having little technical background, I became a photographer. Adopting… — William Klein Copy Share Image
When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium… — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
There's a rapport that any photographer is going to have with his subject matter. And if you don't have a rapport, you're… — Bruce Barnbaum Copy Share Image
My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when… — Graeme Le Saux Copy Share Image
I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
What's happened is that the digital age has made photography more accessible to people. Everyone is a photographer. But to do it… — Bryan Adams Copy Share Image
I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
The difference between a good picture and a mediocre picture is a question of millimeters - small, small differences - but it’s… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get… — Don McCullin Copy Share Image
What I feel is that the picture-taking process, anyway a greater part of it, is an intuitive thing. You can't go out… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Today, the smartphone in your pocket has a high-quality digital camera. Everyone - not just artists - is a photographer, and the… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
“My credo about my photography: We wander through the world, perceiving so much - and yet so little. My passion is to… — Frank Henrich Copy Share Image
...one day I was speculating on how I would like to look back on life and I decided I wanted to feel… — David Hurn Copy Share Image
A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject… — David Hurn Copy Share Image
I believe that the source of your inspiration is very important. I sometimes see this problem with photographers, even very good ones,… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved to have done something… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
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