Photographer Quotes · Page 16

I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely…

— Diane Arbus

...the questions a photographer raises may be more profound than the answers the medium permits.

— Rebecca Solnit

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

Edward [Weston] was the first artist - and I don't use the word lightly - to make a living doing art photography.…

— Rondal Partridge

They [photographs] teach you about your own unraveling past, or about the immediacy of yesterday. They show you what you look at.…

— Joel Meyerowitz

As far as my experience goes one is automatically in touch with the higher spiritual, it is connected to a certain level…

— Paul Caponigro

I had met Michael Stipe, and he was such a kind person, and extremely understanding, so I asked him if he knew…

— Patti Smith

I get photographers hiding in my bushes. We're way past autographs. We're into being stalked and followed.

— Jennifer Lawrence

My teacher introduced me to this photographer Eugène Atget. He was a French photographer in the late 1800s up until 1927 in…

— Jeff Vespa

The photographer’s vision convinces us to the degree that the photographer hides his hand.

— John Szarkowski

A lot of the challenge and the reason for the success of those one-shot photographers is that their pictures almost have to…

— Gregory Heisler

Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come…

— Walker Evans

Don't overthink things in front of you. I fit moves you, shoot it. If it's fun, shoot it. If you've never seen…

— Jay Maisel

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

— Catherine Opie

If you want to be a photographer, particularly a photojournalist , you want to learn about the world. You want to learn…

— Ed Kashi

I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.

— August Strindberg

I find myself every so often looking at my ground glass as though the unrecorded image might escape me!

— Edward Weston

The most valuable things in a life are a man's memories. And they are priceless.

— Andre Kertesz

I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my…

— Aaron Siskind

To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

— Weegee

To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.

— Edward Weston

In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis.

— Minor White

When a photographer chooses a subject, he or she is making a claim on the interest and attention of future viewers, a…

— Frank Gohlke

If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.

— Ruth Bernhard

The camera can push the new medium to its limits - and beyond. It is there - in the "beyond" - that…

— Andreas Feininger