Photographer Quotes · Page 14

Don't ask 'Should I ...?'. Instead, 'Ask what happens if I ...?'

— John Paul Caponigro

When assignments were over, photography continued. One of the primary reasons it did was that I wanted and needed to have fresh…

— Sam Abell

The majority of photographers still seek artistic effects, imitating other mediums of graphic expression. The result is a hybrid product that does…

— Tina Modotti

I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of…

— Agnes Varda

Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see or you…

— Elliott Erwitt

If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a…

— Carine Roitfeld

I was always into the music. Music, in general, saved my life. But the fame part... I would look up, see what…

— Barry Manilow

Photographers don't need to be aggressive. Some are. Henry Benson is aggressive - but then he's from Fleet Street. If you can…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

I admire photographers that don't need a destination. In some ways, street photography is like that. There's a quality of wanderlust for…

— Alec Soth

I can use the camera to make a place or landscape; the camera to a greater extent projects rather than takes in…

— Olafur Eliasson

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.

— William Eggleston

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

To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At…

— Aaron Siskind

[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

As for garden photographers, how differently they see things. With what ease the camera seems to compose a picture of great beauty…

— Mirabel Osler

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

— Minor White

There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's…

— Annie Leibovitz

I don't know what good composition is.... Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a certain coming…

— Diane Arbus

All knowledge is self-reflective.

— Jerry Uelsmann

My photographs are proof of what happened. When I go to Russia, sometimes I meet ex-soldiers... They say, 'We came to liberate…

— Josef Koudelka

While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Main thing is just to remember that hard work got me here and only hard work will keep me here.

— Brandon Stanton

“If you're waiting for a sign from the skies to become a great photographer, the extraordinary images that suddenly appear before you…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject.

— Mario Testino

If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.

— Paul Strand