Photographer Quotes · Page 18

The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness.

— Yann Arthus-Bertrand

My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.'

— Steffi Graf

Some of the angles that photographers get on court are not always flattering.

— Jelena Jankovic

The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

I've been really interested and inspired by Nan Goldin, the photographer.

— Ari Graynor

As a photographer you have to do things you don't want to.

— Massimo Vitali

Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.

— Berenice Abbott

Discussions allow photographers to shuffle their prejudices

— Bill Jay

Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.

— Wynn Bullock

I got a camera when I was nine years old and it wasn't until I was a model that I realized you…

— Nigel Barker

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people…

— Diane Arbus

I didn't take inspiration from other photographers, which in a way helped to find my own images.

— Peter Lindbergh

Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.

— John Szarkowski

Typically I see it with photographers who go to a place like India or Nepal, and everything's so colorful and exotic and…

— Sam Abell

Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.

— Ansel Adams

Evolution in action: First, God said, 'Let there be light.' Then, he created two nude models. Now we have photographers.

— Bill Jay

Sometimes when I'm being photographed, I hear the voice of this photographer who told me when I was about six while he…

— Brad Goreski

The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second — comics, picnic tables, men’s trousers,…

— Andy Warhol

If the quality of professional materials continues to erode or even dries up, then many of us silver photographers would have to…

— Michael Kenna

A fashion photographer is nothing without clothes and hair and makeup. And when I speak to other photographers, a lot of them…

— Mario Testino

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is…

— Robert Adams

I think if you're a creative person, then you're always kinda looking to move things along - 'Where else can I go?…

— Paul Weller

I am not interested in repetition. I don't want to reach the point from where I wouldn't know how to go further.…

— Josef Koudelka

While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can…

— Minor White

It's just a matter of who you are and how you talk to people. Your subjects will trust you only if you're…

— Mary Ellen Mark

What's great is that the picture is already taken before it goes public. It's in secret. The trust that develops from such…

— Emmet Gowin

“In 1850, August Salzmann photographed, near Jerusalem, the road to Beith-Lehem (as it was spelled at the time): nothing but stony ground,…

— Roland Barthes

The advice I would give to any photographer - young, old or in-between - is to explore anything visual because this is,…

— Elliott Erwitt

Why do I have to do this?" Gator demanded. Cuz you're such a pretty boy. Our photographer isn't going to fall for…

— Christine Feehan

I believe that every photographer, every artist, should choose materials and equipment based on their own vision. I don't believe that non-digital…

— Michael Kenna

For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career.…

— Andre Kertesz

Sometimes the most interesting visual phenomena occur when you least expect it. Other times, you think youre getting something amazing and the…

— Michael Kenna

Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.

— Garry Winogrand

Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.

— Joe McNally

A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking.

— John Paul Caponigro

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

— Pablo Picasso

Just because I use the photographic medium, that doesn't mean I'm a photographer.

— Nikki S. Lee

It's my obligation to take out all the 'wrong' pictures.

— Jay Maisel

You don’t take pictures, the good ones happen to you.

— Ernst Haas

I would like to see everything, look at everything, I want to be the view itself.

— Josef Koudelka