Photographer Quotes · Page 21

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels.

— Ansel Adams

I'm not a good photographer. I just capture the highlights of our rotten world.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.

— Bruno Barbey

If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.

— Linda McCartney

I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself...

— Edward Steichen

If a picture is worth a thousand words, photographers are worth a million.

— Tupac Shakur

Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists.

— Arnold Newman

Why do photographers photograph? To make unreality visible.

— Bill Jay

When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each…

— Minor White

Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

“If you think buying a DSLR has made you a photographer, don't ever buy a Stethoscope.”

— Ketan Waghmare

What you're shooting at doesn't matter, the real question is: 'Does it give you joy?'

— Jay Maisel

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in…

— Richard Avedon

The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism.

— Cornell Capa

I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.

— Anonymous

The camera is to the Photographer what the pen is to the Writer: a tool to express a vision

— Myriam Leforestier

It would have been possible to structure my photographs in such a way that no indicators of the present were discernible. However,…

— John Pfahl

A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer,…

— Manuel Alvarez Bravo

I had no real photography experience, thankfully. I consciously took a lot of crowd shots. I was influenced by Seattle photographer Charles…

— Bruce Pavitt

Anyone who looks for life can find it... and they don't need to photograph ashcans. The average camera fan reminds me of…

— Weegee

[The photographer's task] is to describe the existing light... Chances are, if you believe the light, you're going to believe that the…

— Henry Wessel, Jr

In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and…

— Peter C Bunnell

The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. (meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he,…

— Brassai

Woman has been the target of much that is sordid and cheap, especially in photography. To raise, to elevate, to endorse with…

— Ruth Bernhard

When you say documentary, you have to have a sophisticated ear to receive that word. It should be documentary style, because documentary…

— Walker Evans

My style hasn't changed much in all these sixty years. I still use, most of the time, existing light and try not…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

Different levels of photography require different levels of understanding and skill. A "press the button, let George do the rest" photographer needs…

— Minor White

Once digital came, I could see my images instantly right there on the camera. I think that makes you a better photographer…

— Scott Kelby

I have always been fascinated by the life cycle, the way skin metamorphoses over time. I am mesmerized by skin and that's…

— Joyce Tenneson

You find that you have to do many things, more than just lift up the camera and shoot, and so you get…

— Jay Maisel

There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my 'deeper' work. Fashion is where I make my living. I'm…

— Richard Avedon

When you're a well-known fashion photographer, modeling agencies call constantly. They'll say, This great girl is in town for three days. She's…

— Jurgen Teller

Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button.

— Andy Warhol

“Photography is basically an art of arranging the angles!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“It's the photographer that creates the picture, not the camera.”

— Dan Eitreim

The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.

— Garry Winogrand

All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.

— Frederick Sommer

“I am not a photographer , I am a canon owner !!!”

— Walaa Walkademagmal

The pictures are everywhere. If you're open, they will find you.

— Jay Maisel