Photographer Quotes · Page 14

A picture should be looked at - not talked about.

— Elliott Erwitt

“The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world”

— Jeannette Winterson

The camera is a fluid way of encountering that other reality

— Jerry Uelsmann

It is a rare photographer who can take a detached, cold-blooded view of his work.

— Arthur Rothstein

Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph

— Andre Kertesz

In every photographer there is something of a stroller.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Frozen finger shot brings the warmest picture”

— Fazli Rrezja

It is a serious job being a portrait photographer, which is how I saw myself.

— Astrid Kirchherr

“I am always learning and growing as a photographer. I am always looking for new ways to improve my skills and capture…

— Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a…

— Susan Meiselas

I believe it is the photographer's function to reveal that which is concealed, even if it be repugnant to the majority, not…

— Arthur Tress

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

— Andy Warhol

Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand.

— John Paul Caponigro

We photographers say that we take a picture, and in a certain sense, that is true. We take something from people's lives,…

— Steve McCurry

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter.

— Annie Parisse

I'm not very daring in my street style, usually because there's a photographer around!

— Anne Hathaway

Through a portrait, we can potentially see everything — the history and depth of a person's life, as well as evidence of…

— Joyce Tenneson

You should be constantly asking yourself: What do I want to say next? What do I believe in? Who am I? What…

— Mario Sorrenti

You have to have a lot of 'overage' so that your failures aren't the only thing you come home with. You've got…

— Jay Maisel

By Interstate 70: a dog skeleton, a vacuum cleaner, TV dinners, a doll, a pie, rolls of carpet.Later, next to the South…

— Robert Adam

The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and…

— Bill Brandt

I love photography and I love the art of photography. So when I'm working with high-level art photographers, I give them artistic…

— Helen Mirren

I enjoy traveling and recording far-away places and people with my camera. But I also find it wonderfully rewarding to see what…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

If the photographer is to create works that will stand for his spirit in the same way as artists in other genres,…

— Yukio Mishima

“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

I think you reveal yourself by what you choose to photograph, but I prefer photographs that tell more about the subject. There's…

— Mary Ellen Mark

Once I came out in college I just have always been out and at work with pretty much everybody. My wife and…

— Lydia Polgreen

Making pictures is a very simple act. There is no great secret in photography...schools are a bunch of crap. You just need…

— Elliott Erwitt

I seem to walk in the world as two people. The normal everyday-me is as preoccupied, unobservant and oblivious to visual clues…

— Bill Jay

Photographers should make three or four prints from one negative and then crop them differently. When I was art director at Harper's…

— Alexey Brodovitch

I never had any intention nor interest in being an artist, but when I made work I realized that this was my…

— Paul Rusconi

To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The…

— Berenice Abbott

French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.

— Carine Roitfeld

I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification

— Joe Manganiello

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.

— Ansel Adams

I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in.

— Steve McCurry

I have gradually confused photography with life.

— Jerry Uelsmann

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.

— Richard Avedon

The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.

— Jerry Saltz

Had I not become a singer, I may have been a photographer.

— Lisa