Photographer Quotes · Page 12

It's always around. You just don't see it.

— Jay Maisel

Available light is any damn light that is available!

— W. Eugene Smith

The photographer in my head says: Give me peace. Flash. Give me release. Flash.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.

— David Bailey

A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs.

— Joel Sternfeld

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

— Edward Steichen

My father was a keen photographer; he had his own darkroom.

— Grayson Perry

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

— Sam Abell

We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.

— Jay Maisel

These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message

— Anonymous

Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something…

— Emmet Gowin

There really isn't anything that you could call 'bad' color. It all has to do with the amount of color you use…

— Jay Maisel

Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.

— Minor White

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…

— Rankin

You must not think of yourself as looking at the stage from the audience. You must think of it as theatre in…

— Jay Maisel

I'm always looking for perfection. Every photographer, in one way or another, if he's serious, is. He ain't ever going to get…

— Phil Stern

There is enormous need for professionals who know how to tell stories with narrative punch and nuance, who can work proactively and…

— Fred Ritchin

In previous ages the word 'art' was used to cover all forms of human skill. The Greeks believed that these skills were…

— David Hurn

I have a hard time standing still when people are looking at me. That's why photo shoots never work out very well.…

— Allison Mack

As photographers, we have to find our own identity, our own voice, our own vocabulary. And my question all the time is…

— Mario Testino

I am always surprised at all the things people read into my photos, but it also amuse me. That may be because…

— Cindy Sherman

I wonder what art is about and I'm not sure that what I do is art because I'm a photographer, not an…

— Todd Walker

Sometimes when I'm being photographed, I hear the voice of this photographer who told me when I was about six while he…

— Brad Goreski

[Photography] can be tiny, on your phone, or it can be a billboard, or a film-sized projection, or printed in a magazine.…

— Christian Marclay

There is no art which affords less opportunity to execute expression than photography. Everything is concentrated in a few seconds, when after…

— Sadakichi Hartmann

Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with…

— Stephen Shore

Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that 'language' themselves just as musicians…

— Howard S. Becker

If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and…

— Diane Arbus

When I revealed the campaign, some lady in the front row, a photographer, asked "is that airbrushed?" So I just lifted my…

— Dara Torres

There are photographers who push for war because they make stories. They search for a Chinese who has a more Chinese are…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I…

— Cat Power

For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career.…

— Andre Kertesz

I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.

— Ben Affleck

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

— Eudora Welty

I now want to be a photographer of my time, and our common culture.

— Sam Abell

A natural-born photographer, with hypo in my blood.

— Weegee

Always carry a camera, it's tough to shoot a picture without one.

— Jay Maisel

One shouldn’t be only two photographers but thousands.

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.

— Jean Cocteau

If you want to be a photographer, you have to photograph

— Steve McCurry