You should be constantly asking yourself: What do I want to say next? What do I believe in? Who am I? What… — Mario Sorrenti Copy Share Image
Photography is a craft. Anyone can learn a craft with normal intelligence and application. To take it beyond the craft is something… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
These elites, preferring to work in private, are rarely found posed for photographers, and their influence upon events has therefore to be… — Harold Wallace Rosenthal Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or… — Valentino Garavani Copy Share Image
I think that it was a great advantage to go into photography not knowing much about it. Not thinking. I think one… — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be a photographer. I wanted to play music and be a rock star. I didn't have a mentor… — Terry Richardson Copy Share Image
One of my basic feelings is that the mind, and the heart alike, of the photographer must be dedicated to the glory,… — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image
Searching is everything - going beyond what you know. And the test of the search is really in the things themselves, the… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
I love the Dutch impressionists - Vermeer, Rembrandt. What they were able to do with light was astonishing. As for photographers, I… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Being a photographer is like listening to music. If you have a camera, by just living your life you're bound to find… — Christine Elise Copy Share Image
I dressed all in black and went to see all the top photographers, like Irving Penn, and said, 'I am Veruschka who… — Veruschka von Lehndorff Copy Share Image
A photographer needs to be a good editor of negatives and prints! In fact, most of the prints I make are for… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
'Color' is quite different from 'colors.' In an image with many colors, we find that all the colors compete with each other… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
This is how you can tell a real photographer: mostly, a real photographer does not say 'I wish I had my camera… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born… — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
A photographer went to a socialite party in New York. As he entered the front door, the host said 'I love your… — Sam Haskins Copy Share Image
If you're a photographer, you end up being the raw creative force that allows other people to see what kind of narrative… — Cole Sprouse Copy Share Image
A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
The most embarassing is when friends ask you to meet up with them and you have to tell them "Sorry I can't… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the… — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
For a short time I was an assistant to a professional photographer, and I felt that my soul was not there. That… — Ori Gersht Copy Share Image
What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently than I do. A good picture must be a… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
There are a lot of photographers who have influenced me; some of the great ones, like Herb Ritts, Helmut Newton, and [Alfred]… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
...just like some people's instinct to photograph is triggered by vacation... assignments might be that to me and that's why I've built… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work… — Aaron Scharf Copy Share Image
Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating… — Minor White Copy Share Image
I found that I wanted to be best friends with almost all the women I interviewed because they had been through something.… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
When I go out, I kind of put a hat on and glasses, so I'm kind of just like a photographer going… — Brooklyn Beckham Copy Share Image
Making people laugh is one of the highest achievements you can have. And when you can make someone laugh and cry, alternatively,… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
If I had to give advice to other photographers, I would first suggest quickly getting over the camera equipment questions. In my… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] has told me, urgently and repeatedly, that he thinks my photographs are crap. His exact words were,… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I photograph from the heart. I adore little babies and I think that shows. My images are really very positive, very simple,… — Anne Geddes Copy Share Image
![“There are a lot of photographers who have influenced me; some of the great ones, like Herb Ritts, Helmut Newton, and [Alfred] Stieglitz. I draw from all of them. You're supposed to steal from the good ones.” quote by Leonard Nimoy](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d1a/leonard-nimoy-4535_draws_there-are-a-lot-of-photographers-who-hav_1267156.png)
![“His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] has told me, urgently and repeatedly, that he thinks my photographs are crap. His exact words were, 'These photos are of poor quality. Why is there no sharp focus? There is no clarity!' I said, 'But your Holiness, it's Goyaesque.' And he said, 'No! It's out of focus!'” quote by Richard Gere](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/186/richard-gere-3534_clarity_his-holiness-the-dalai-lama-has-told-me_1607458.jpg)
