Photographers Quotes · Page 4

The vast number of photographers, feeding on anything visible, overgraze the landscape the way cattle overgraze their pasture.

— Wright Morris

Believe in yourself. Listen to the photographers you work with, and try to be professional at all time.

— Alessandra Ambrosio

Many photographers live in a dream world of beautiful backgrounds. It wouldn’t hurt them to get a taste of reality to wake…

— Weegee

Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent.

— Ray Metzker

I believe Photoshop is in some way the contemporary darkroom, the creative area that all photographers have available today.

— Douglas Kirkland

True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists.

— Bill Jay

You couldn't get away with anything at City because there were always photographers everywhere.

— Micah Richards

A lot of photographers walk around looking for something 'out there,' but I'm very much interested in what's 'in here.'

— Duane Michals

Photographers want to reinvent you, to take you somewhere else, to show you in a completely different way. They look at your…

— Emma Watson

There are photographers who don't really engage with their subject. It's a really unfortunate phrase, but they take their photo and they…

— Sebastian Junger

I think there a lot of great photographers working right now in the 2010. At the same time I do occasionally feel…

— Polly Allen Mellen

I've learned to suck in my stomach when photographers are around. I used to read gossip magazines all the time, but I…

— Fergie

Grunge came from a group of English photographers, and they were documenting their own reality... I'm South American - we celebrate life.

— Mario Testino

Photography is a tool to negotiate our idea of reality. Thus it is the responsibility of photographers to not contribute with anaesthetic…

— Joan Fontcuberta

“We photographers are a despicable bunch. We take photographs. The best of us do not show people as they wish to be…

— Waswo X. Waswo

I do find it strange, doing magazine shoots. Photographers always go, 'Why don't you like to have your picture taken? That's what…

— James McAvoy

The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on…

— Edward Weston

I can think of numberless males, from Bonnard to Callahan, who have photographed their lovers and spouses, but I am having trouble…

— Sally Mann

Those who want to be serious photographers, you're really going to have to edit your work. You're going to have to understand…

— Annie Leibovitz

...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes…

— Bill Jay

“The sight of this woman infringing on the privacy of others so aggressively and casually sent revulsion through my entire being. What…

— Waswo X. Waswo

Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex…

— Jessie Tarbox Beals

A close friend of mine, Annie Leibovitz, who I've known for forty years, photographs celebrities every single day of the week but…

— Lawrence Schiller

I've never been the type of photographer to live with people I photograph. You know, shoot heroin with them, that kind of…

— Alec Soth

When I went to L.A., I started modeling, hoping to travel and learn from photographers. It led to auditions to do commercials.

— Beth Riesgraf

Photographers and people do try to take advantage of you. You just have to stand your ground and prove you're not an…

— Terry Farrell

A lot of paparazzi wanted to be real photographers but they failed, and they did that instead, and it's not right; it's…

— Peaches Geldof

One of the photographers was like, "Can you stop talking and try to look sexy for a minute?"

— Tracee Ellis Ross

Photographers undervalue the use of the wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography.

— Ralph Steiner

“I don’t have many photographs of myself – a trait common to most professional photographers”

— William Boyd

For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers.

— Subcomandante Marcos

Attention from the photographers is part of my life and I think the best thing is to learn to deal with it.

— Rande Gerber

It's not my favorite thing, photographers on the street, they are not always very nice to you. But, you just keep on…

— Hilaria Baldwin

Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.

— Ansel Adams

Photographers never have much incentive to show the world as it is.

— William Leith

Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.

— Martin Parr

Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.

— Alfred Stieglitz

A lot of fashion photographers are telling a story with their pictures.

— Eoin Macken

I would really love to work with major photographers who haven't featured plus-size models before.

— Tess Holliday

“We can put forward a conspiracy theory about people wearing red dresses: They are photographer hunters!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan