Photographer Quotes · Page 16

Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.

— Alfred Stieglitz

I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.

— Ansel Adams

You just do what you love, and then a style happens later on.

— David LaChapelle

Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.

— Charles Baudelaire

We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted.

— Frederick Sommer

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

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Being a photographer is making people look at what I want them to look at.

— Ruth Orkin

I am a perfectionist. When I take a picture...it's gotta be good.

— Weegee

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— magicpicture

For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers.

— Subcomandante Marcos

I don't go out looking for pictures. I go out, and if something catches my eye, that's reason enough to photograph it.

— Henry Wessel, Jr

We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass…

— Margaret Bourke-White

I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them…

— Robert Mapplethorpe

Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world - good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which…

— Berenice Abbott

A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe.

— Nobuyoshi Araki

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.

— Cindy Sherman

This idea of helping the next generation is a very intrinsic part of photojournalism. We need to continue to build this new…

— Ron Haviv

It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create…

— Edward Steichen

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking,…

— Dorothea Lange

Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem…

— Ernst Haas

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses…

— Richard Avedon

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

— David Hurn

However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I…

— Aaron Siskind

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

— Fred Ritchin

By temperament I am not unduly excitable and certainly not trigger-happy. I think twice before I shoot and very often do not…

— Bill Brandt

I've had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or for film posters.…

— Keira Knightley

I'm kind of a walking photographer, i love exploring new places. One day I was taking a break during an excursion in…

— Jacques Lecoq

I'm always amused by the idea that certain people have about technique, which translate into an immoderate taste for the sharpness of…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I have known know many therapists who come out of Pacifica Graduate Institute and love being both artists and therapists at the…

— Kelly Carlin-McCall

We don't understand what photography is doing. We don't understand the power of its rhetoric. We don't understand why the Provoke photographers…

— Stuart Franklin

“This book does not try to “document” any particular aspect of Indian life. To me, doing such a thing would seem a…

— Waswo X. Waswo

Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just…

— Edward Weston

The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.

— Aaron Siskind

I'm no photographer, but I can picture you with me.

— Anonymous

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

— Sally Mann

I believe that photography loves banal objects, and I love the life of objects.

— Josef Sudek

Photographer's advice: Stand in the right place.

— David Douglas Duncan

The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

— Walker Evans

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

— Ernst Haas

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

— Minor White