Photographer Quotes · Page 7

Success is when the checks don’t bounce.

— Andy Warhol

The problem suggests the solution.

— Jay Maisel

A good question has many answers.

— John Paul Caponigro

Seek freedom within action.

— Paul Caponigro

Photography is a love affair with life.

— Burk Uzzle

I never set out to be a photographer.

— David Bailey

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.

— Frederick Sommer

I never claimed to be a great photographer.

— Marty Stuart

Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.

— Lisette Model

I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict,

— Giles Duley

You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.

— Eve Arnold

I'm not a good photographer. I just capture the highlights of our rotten world.

— Ritu Ghatourey

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels.

— Ansel Adams

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

— Gordon Parks

A snapshot steals life that it cannot return. A long exposure [creates] a form that never existed.

— Dieter Appelt

A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars.

— Guy Le Querrec

It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.

— Walker Evans

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

— Duane Michals

Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to…

— Tim Walker

In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you…

— Harry Callahan

My responsibility as a photographer, to my subjects, is to know what's going to happen with my images.

— Erin Siegal McIntyre

I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot of painters and photographers and had a very…

— Jared Leto

Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others. Photography is still a very new medium and…

— Bill Brandt

I've always been obsessed with penetrating the female psyche. When I shoot, I'm like a tornado. I never sit down, never take…

— Joyce Tenneson

I discovered that this camera was the technical means in photography of communicating what the world looks like in a state of…

— Stephen Shore

... the effort, diligence, and care required in practicing must be quickly suspended when pressure coming from anxiety or a desire for…

— Paul Caponigro

There's a kind of power thing about the camera. I mean everyone knows you've got some edge. You're carrying some magic which…

— Diane Arbus

I understood that synergistic dance between photographer and object - 'muse,' if you will, 'model,' whatever you call us. It's that silent…

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

And then as I frequently do, some times I'll peek out from underneath the focusing cloth and just look around the edges…

— John Sexton

This is life. It is everywhere, and it is here for the taking. I am alive and I know this, now, in…

— Bill Jay

Somewhere in our search for reality we have passed something by, something important that we no longer find amid the bits and…

— Walker Evans

Photographers do themselves a disservice by talking too much about the equipment they use. Consequently people don't take them seriously as creators…

— Peter Turnley

Anyday, one can walk down the street in a big city and see a thousand people. Any photographer can photograph these people…

— Langston Hughes

I work alone. Humans are incredible, because when you come alone, they will receive you, they accept you, they protect you, they…

— Sebastiao Salgado

When we hold a photo negative up to the light all objects are reversed. Black is white, white is black. Moreover, the…

— Catherine Marshall

Once a photographer is convinced that the camera can lie and that, strictly speaking, the vast majority of photographs are camera lies,…

— Andreas Feininger

The images which the [press] photographer has filtered from reality, whether particular events or the anguish of human reactions to them, already…

— Yukio Mishima

I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself...

— Edward Steichen

If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.

— Linda McCartney