Photographer Quotes · Page 19

Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it…

— Bill Brandt

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

— Garry Winogrand

More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues.…

— Beaumont Newhall

Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.

— Marc Riboud

The photographer must be absorbent, like a blotter, allow himself to be permeated by the poetic moment...His technique should be like an…

— Robert Doisneau

I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the…

— Ansel Adams

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

I’m so worried that I’m going to perfect [my] technique someday. I have to say its unfortunate how many of my pictures…

— Sally Mann

The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour…

— Edward Weston

“I have learned that the camera is, as is often said, a powerful weapon. And the wielder of that weapon can be…

— Waswo X. Waswo

The immortal photographers will be straightforward photographers, those who do not rely on tricks or special techniques.

— Philippe Halsman

Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale, through fields…

— Edward Steichen

Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description - a window. But…

— Alec Soth

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

“An excellent photograph is the one which has excellently captured an excellent moment!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

All dancers are, by and large, a photographer's dream. They communicate with their bodies and they are trained to be completely responsive…

— Annie Leibovitz

You don't study photography, you just do it.

— Elliott Erwitt

I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child.…

— Robert Mapplethorpe

I have a really hard time stepping out of a limousine and confronting a sh*tload of photographers who are all screaming at…

— Julia Ormond

Like most portrait photographers, I aim to record the instant the subject is not thinking about being photographed, striving to get beyond…

— Martin Schoeller

It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera

— Sebastiao Salgado

...my way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things...

— Sebastiao Salgado

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

— John Szarkowski

There's a kind of power thing about the camera. I mean everyone knows you've got some edge. You're carrying some magic which…

— Diane Arbus

I do go very fast. I think if I don't go fast it's going to be boring. That's what photographers need to…

— Carine Roitfeld