Photographer Quotes · Page 15

When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.

— Sally Mann

I laughed at the whole Cannes Film Festival thing because it didn't feel real. I remember getting off the red-eye when I…

— Liv Tyler

If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence,…

— Robert Mapplethorpe

Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.

— Nikki Giovanni

To become a photographer leave your house first.

— Steve McCurry

It seems to be extensively believed by photographers that meanings are to be found in the world much in the way rabbits…

— Victor Burgin

When I gave up my office job and became a full-time professional photographer, my fortunes certainly improved markedly. We moved away from…

— Derek Ridgers

The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a…

— Ansel Adams

Always, when the words art and artistic are applied to my photographic work, I am disagreeably affected. This is due, surely, to…

— Tina Modotti

We're responsible for everything that's included in the frame. We're also responsible for what's not included in the frame. We're responsible for…

— John Paul Caponigro

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

— David Bailey

...I don't see myself as a documentary photographer. I am more drawn to the image itself, rather than to the description of…

— Beat Streuli

Me and my friends had BMX magazines and skate magazines, and I was a photographer who made skate videos.

— Spike Jonze

I work in several different groups of pictures which act on and with each other - ranging from several abstracted manners to…

— Ralph Eugene Meatyard

I try to begin working with no preconceived ideas.

— Jerry Uelsmann

The [concentration camps] were swarming with photographers and every new picture of horror served only to diminish the total effect. Now, for…

— Robert Capa

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

— Susan Sontag

As a matter of fact, nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following…

— Alfred Stieglitz

A lot of people love Tarantino’s films because they’re spectacular, they’re beautiful, they’re wonderful. He hires the best group of artists -…

— Demian Bichir

If I am dissatisfied, it's simply because good photos are few and far between. A good photo is a miracle.

— Josef Koudelka

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the…

— Tyra Banks

Making people laugh is one of the highest achievements you can have. And when you can make someone laugh and cry, alternatively,…

— Elliott Erwitt

We [photographers] have the tools and the power to create images - we should try to make them as truthful as possible.

— Petra Collins

It's in trying to direct the traffic between Artiface [sic] and Candor, without being run over, that I'm confronted with the questions…

— Richard Avedon

How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work…

— Aaron Scharf