Photographer Quotes · Page 17

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

— Minor White

If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.

— Jay Maisel

I want to be the toughest photographer in the world.

— Don McCullin

No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras

— Edward Weston

If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.

— Ruth Bernhard

Never say you're going back - SHOOT IT NOW!

— Jay Maisel

Art is technique: a means by which to materialize the invisible realm of the mind.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.

— Garry Winogrand

Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I…

— Yousuf Karsh

As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish... This should make amateurs the happiest…

— Andreas Feininger

... to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs.

— W. Eugene Smith

A person cannot learn to be a photographer. He can only cultivate what he already has. I try to make people aware…

— Ruth Bernhard

“Why you like photography so much? Because it's just the camera and me showing everyone else what we can see. It's telling…

— Lindsey Kelk

A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.

— Brassai

Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones.

— Robert Adams

Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity, and when you're photographing children there's often an abundance of it. I would have an…

— Sally Mann

I don't want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or…

— Dylan Moran

Detachment, lack of sentimentality, originality, a lot of things that sound rather empty. I know what they mean. Let's say, "visual impact"…

— Walker Evans

I am always surprised at all the things people read into my photos, but it also amuse me. That may be because…

— Cindy Sherman

As photographers, we have to find our own identity, our own voice, our own vocabulary. And my question all the time is…

— Mario Testino

I have a hard time standing still when people are looking at me. That's why photo shoots never work out very well.…

— Allison Mack

[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

I wonder what art is about and I'm not sure that what I do is art because I'm a photographer, not an…

— Todd Walker

Making information free is survivable so long as only limited numbers of people are disenfranchised. As much as it pains me to…

— Jaron Lanier

If it's a likeness, alone, it's not a success. If, through my portraits, you can come to know the subjects more meaningfully,…

— Yousuf Karsh

I think I just do what I feel is good to do. Everybody can give me their suggestions, but at the end,…

— Franca Sozzani

These days it seems that physical truth can easily be rearranged, rethought, or re-created outright. Any image can be made pristine, all…

— Jerome Liebling

The challenge for me, and for Asian models in general has been convincing editors, stylists and photographers that we can have mass…

— Liu Wen

The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special…

— Caleb Deschanel

The photographer Ruth Bernhard used to tell me that this is like asking somebody how they evolved their signature. It is not…

— Michael Kenna

I'd really rather leave it to others to say what they see in it and to see if I've put something into…

— Bruce Barnbaum

“When I make a photograph I feel that I hold a piece of the universe in my hands.”

— Paul Chaplo

In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.

— Garry Winogrand

I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

— Richard Avedon

I fell into this thing by accident. I was never supposed to be a photographer.

— Christopher Anderson

There's nothing wrong with being a fashion photographer, but it's a bit limited.

— David Bailey

To be a photographer u gota see the bigger picture in life.

— Vincent Nkgoeng

I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them?

— W. Eugene Smith