Photographer Quotes · Page 23

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

— Lauren Greenfield

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

— John Szarkowski

Photographers, like kids, should be seen and not heard.

— Bill Jay

Find the one thing you’re good at and FOCUS on it.

— Joyce Tenneson

Several people feel I have photographed God. May be.

— Alfred Stieglitz

Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.

— John Paul Caponigro

If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy.

— Jay Maisel

Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese.

— Bill Jay

My visual quest is driven by a desire to create a universe capable of supporting feelings and ideas.

— Jerry Uelsmann

I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.

— Berenice Abbott

I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.

— Beau Bridges

They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I was discovered by a photographer. I literally was in the right place at the right time.

— Denise Bidot

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the…

— Annie Leibovitz

As a landscape photographer we should be open to possibilities, for one thing often leads to another.

— Michael Kenna

I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.

— Graciela Iturbide

Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of…

— Bill Brandt

I didn’t see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn’t make those boundaries. If someone wants to…

— David LaChapelle

If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king…

— James Whistler

... the possibility of one particular photographer's pictures lying around the corner is never realized until the photographer is there. It's one…

— Alex Webb

The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to know what you stand for, no? Most…

— Peter Lindbergh

“You're a photographer, for Pete's sake. You need a photo of yourself front and center." "Well, yes, but..." A deep sigh followed…

— Janice Thompson

What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake...spiritually driven work constitutes the…

— William Albert Allard

This idea fascinates me. The idea that a few seconds of watching a photographer in action can tell you his/her status in…

— David Hurn

It is a great honor for me to be compared to Henri Cartier-BressonBut I believe there is a very big difference in…

— Sebastiao Salgado

Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you…

— Robert Adams

At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer…

— Ansel Adams

The way I would describe a pictorial is that it is a picture that makes everybody say ‘Aaaaah,’ with five vowels when…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld…

— Aaron Siskind

Photography is inextricably linked with life; the photographer is not invisibly behind the camera but projecting a life-attitude through the lens to…

— Bill Jay

I work in several different groups of pictures which act on and with each other - ranging from several abstracted manners to…

— Ralph Eugene Meatyard

The photographer sees the world as a child sees the bits of glass in a kaleidoscope. If he has a camera with…

— Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

You have to let the past successes go, or you'll never be able to see anew.

— Jay Maisel

It is necessary to like loneliness to be photographer

— Raymond Depardon

The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I’ve lost control of it.

— Cindy Sherman

I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.

— Henry Rollins

Be aware of every square millimeter of your frame.

— Jay Maisel

Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities.

— Frederick Sommer

Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher.

— John Szarkowski

You can take a good picture of anything. A bad one, too.

— William Eggleston