Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been? — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
I was a photographer. That's how I began my career, behind the camera. — Shweta Tripathi Copy Share Image
It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
The photographer’s vision convinces us to the degree that the photographer hides his hand. — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
You can't just turn on when something happens, you have to be turned on all the time. Then things happen. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have… — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
Working myself into a position of total versatility, so that I can do anything I want to do at the time I… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
It's more difficult now, to be a Geographic photographer, than it was when I came along. And it wasn't easy at that… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Photographers undervalue the use of a wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography. — Ralph Steiner Copy Share Image
Only in black and white can I see the design and textures. I don't consider color photography art. Black and white is… — Clyde Butcher Copy Share Image
Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
André Kertész has two qualities that are essential for a great photographer: an insatiable curiosity about the world, about people, and about… — Brassai Copy Share Image
I suppose the primary intention of a documentary photographer is to document facts. My work often does this but it is not… — Richard Billingham Copy Share Image
A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see. Most people, really, don’t see-see only… — Leon Levinstein Copy Share Image
Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I am not an artist, and I never intended to be one. I hope I have made some good photographs, but what… — Cornell Capa Copy Share Image
Since the background is as important as the subject, you mustn't let it default by chance. You must control not only vertical… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Do not call yourself an "artist-photographer" and make "artist-painters" and "artist-sculptors" laugh; call yourself a photographer and wait for artists to call… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
There's never a time that I'm not intrusive. That's the base of what we - photographers - do: we're intrusive. Anyone saying… — Eugene Richards Copy Share Image
In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
Photography must seize upon this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it. The photographers eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
It's possible to think of photography as an act of editing, a matter of where you put your rectangle pull it out… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
It's a little bit like talking about the life of writing. The life of writing may be about many things, but it… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I left film because I felt that photography was my art. It was something I could do on my own, whereas film… — Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Copy Share Image
The principal thing is the question of how our culture views age: that old is ugly. Take a photographer like Mapplethorpe. Every… — John Coplans Copy Share Image
As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me. — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
