Photographer Quotes · Page 52

There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into…

— Arnold Newman

I was the Playmate editor for 'Playboy' for two years. I produced two years' worth of centerfolds. I did everything on that,…

— Holly Madison

I think this is the most exciting time in the history of photography. Technology is expanding what photographers can do, like the…

— Richard Misrach

My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has…

— Alfred Stieglitz

By some special graciousness of fate I am deposited - as all good photographers like to be - in the right place…

— Margaret Bourke-White

... we photographers are nothing but a pack of crooks, thieves and voyeurs. We are to be found everywhere we are not…

— Brassai

A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of…

— Alexandra Kerry

Every time I take a photo, it goes into SnapSeed. Even if it's just a price tag on something, it still goes…

— Hunter Hayes

Photography's a case of keeping all the pores of the skin open, as well as the eyes. A lot of photographers today…

— Don McCullin

My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O'Neill, who is a photographer,…

— Michael Caine

Technically, I have not changed very much. Ask my assistants. They'll tell you, I am the easiest photographer to work with. I…

— Helmut Newton

I wanted to be Brooke Shields, and my mother was an aspiring photographer, so I was, of course, the only one who…

— Stephanie Seymour

I'm a photographer and my pictures are used in advertising campaigns. But I don't do advertising. Do you hear me? I take…

— Oliviero Toscani

If it doesn’t have ambiguity, don’t bother to take it. I love that, that aspect of photography—the mendacity of photography—it’s got to…

— Sally Mann

It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they…

— Minor White

I had been a fashion photographer for over ten years, but I'd always been dissatisfied with what I was doing. It was…

— Giles Duley

Photographers - idiots, of which there are so many - say, "Oh, if only I had a Nikon or a Leica, I…

— Andreas Feininger

The camera only facilitates the taking. The photographer must do the giving in order to transform and transcend ordinary reality. The problem…

— Ernst Haas

... the photographer is a thief who chooses what he steals (which, at this stage of the crisis, is a luxury) and…

— Subcomandante Marcos

With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The…

— David Hockney

I'm in the early stages of a film called 'Freezing Time' about Eadweard Muybridge, the Victorian photographer who was really the forefather…

— Andy Serkis

I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not…

— Chuck Close

You know, they always say that the photographer is a hunter of images. That is a flattering image, the idea of a…

— Robert Doisneau

“It would be a shame if you didn't applaud the photographer when you saw a beautiful photo; but you should applaud not…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Laugh, love, dream, strive, smile, feel, joy, look, try, fail, read, walk, search, share, help, work, fun, learn, retry, sweat, cry, rest,…

— Steve Coleman

I started being a photographer because I liked fashion. I liked the idea of dressing up and changing my look. I got…

— Mario Testino

My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the…

— Sam Abell

Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer.…

— Edouard Boubat

I went from being an underpaid ad man to quite a successful photographer in a very short time. Success breeds confidence and…

— Derek Ridgers

There was a time when photographers were thought to be socially secondary, and, hence, not dangerous. Lincoln was more important than Brady.…

— George W. S. Trow

I always found it rather pathetic that as a photographer I would be dependent to such a large extent on sheer luck...…

— Pedro Meyer

Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out…

— Martin Parr

We talk about the vulnerability involved in sharing our work publicly. I don't think we talk enough about the real vulnerability involved…

— John Paul Caponigro

Sure. I’d like to live regular. Go home to a good looking wife, a hot dinner, and a husky kid. But I…

— Weegee

My first big job was an Abercrombie &Fitch campaign. But my mom wouldn't let me skip school for it, so I missed…

— Lauren Bush

So the problem for the poetic artist or the photographer is the common problem of continuous attentiveness, continuous attempts to notice what…

— Allen Ginsberg

I don't have a favorite photo. As a photographer, I have attachments to each image. Not the one photo: the experience of…

— Michael Muller

As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art.

— Susan Sontag

I am constantly torn between the attitude of the conscientious journalist who is a recorder and interpreter of the facts and of…

— W. Eugene Smith

I've got to get the ultimate in composition today. or I've got to get the ultimate in light, I'll stay here until…

— Paul Caponigro