I was to be a photographer and that was that. It did…

Before GoPro, if you wanted to have any footage of yourself doing anything, whether it's video or photo, you not only needed a camera,…

— Nick Woodman

Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration.

— David Bailey

My mom was a medical photographer, but on the side, she did a before-and-after glam photography business in the house. She would do makeup…

— Tyra Banks

I think if you don't love people and aren't fascinated by them, you'll never succeed as a portrait photographer, because your pictures will look…

— Rankin

I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested…

— Keanu Reeves

The camera is to the Photographer what the pen is to the Writer: a tool to express a vision

— Myriam Leforestier

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

— Eve Arnold

The head of the photographer is more important than his camera

— Philippe Halsman

“Judging by the photograph it seemed like I hadn’t been there at all. As if it was my camera that had been on holiday,…

— Ida Løkås

The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

— Ansel Adams

Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot…

— Elliott Erwitt

I was a photographer. That's how I began my career, behind the camera.

— Shweta Tripathi

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

— Anonymous

I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a…

— Sebastiao Salgado