Photographer Quotes · Page 20

I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.

— Sam Abell

Photographers can create moments that will never happen again but last a lifetime.

— Tyler Shields

I don't know who said 'pictures don't lie.' It couldn't have been a photographer.

— Linda Palmer

Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.

— Robert Frank

You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it.

— Ruth Bernhard

There are rules about perception, but not about photography.

— Jay Maisel

There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

— Robert Heinecken

a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in…

— Walker Evans

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from…

— Margaret Bourke-White

“People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they're doing, or how their hair looks. Nobody see the person…

— Erica O'Rourke

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

— Mehmet Murat ildan

It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who…

— Paul Caponigro

The authentic thing is to follow your heart, your instincts, your emotions. If you located yourself in an idea, your life would…

— Emmet Gowin

I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have…

— Sebastiao Salgado

You've got to struggle against the pollution of intelligence in order to become an animal with very sharp instincts - a sort…

— Robert Doisneau

“Where they are setting up the market, it used to be a place for torture,” Julien remarked, indicating the place in front…

— Mandy Baggot

I go back and forth, but I never wanted to be the photographer of the gay and lesbian community. I will wave…

— Catherine Opie

It was only with the emergence of the Conceptualist approaches of the late 1960s that the opposition between artists using photography and…

— Jean-Francois Chevrier

I wasn't really that good at being a musician. And then I tried being a standup. I was an actor. I was…

— Garry Marshall

I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first…

— Douglass North

Photography and photographers have an inevitable development. They progress more or less by steps. Every five or ten years some new point…

— Ansel Adams

A girl must have an indefinable magic, real character, a strong sense of self. Her role is to respond to the brief…

— Erin O'Connor

Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode…

— Ralph Gibson

Leonard [Nimoy] was such a teacher for me. He was one of the most fully realized human beings I have ever known…

— Zachary Quinto

One view of photography is that it is a zen-like act which captures reality with its pants down - so that the…

— Peter Brook

I seek what lies beneath surface beauty. What interests me are intimate human complexities - the darkness as well as the light.…

— Joyce Tenneson

Photography has an amazing ability to capture the fine detail of surface textures. But far too often these intricate patterns are loved…

— Arthur Tress

One of the things that I most believe in is the compose and wait philosophy of photography. It’s a very satisfying, almost…

— Sam Abell

One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the…

— John Szarkowski

Given the lack of public skills in reading photographs, given that photographic content is sometimes buried in beauty, contemporary landscape photographers are…

— Lucy R. Lippard

It's up to us as photographers to give voice to the natural world.

— Frans Lanting

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.

— Arthur Ashe

Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.

— Frederick Sommer

Just because you have a camera doesn't make you a photographer.

— Anonymous

“A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.”

— Amit Kalantri

You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.

— Eve Arnold

I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict,

— Giles Duley

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

— Gordon Parks