Photographer Quotes · Page 27

Photographers represented occasions once. You dressed for them as you might for church; they cost money, they recorded important moments.

— Michael Lesy

I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'

— David LaChapelle

Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst.

— Margaret Mead

The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a…

— Ansel Adams

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

— Sebastiao Salgado

I'm not a photographer, so I need all the help I can get when it comes to make a picture look cool.

— Hunter Hayes

Some photographers shoot hundreds of pictures in a row and you need to be able to move from pose to pose very…

— Jamie Eason

I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.

— Elliott Erwitt

...and each time I pressed the shutter release it was a shouted condemnation hurled with the hope that the picture might survive…

— W. Eugene Smith

I think that the photographer must completely control his picture and bring to it all his personality, and in this area most…

— Duane Michals

There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see or you…

— Elliott Erwitt

The neatest part of this book I'm working on - to me - are the pictures that show the process... Because photographers...…

— Sam Abell

There is more in art, with an apology to that much abused word, as applied to photography, than startling display lines, on…

— Gertrude Kasebier

The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental…

— Roman Vishniac

It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as…

— Ansel Adams

I started out as a fashion photographer. One cannot say that I was successful but there was enough work to keep me…

— Saul Leiter

“I think the world..the world continues just goes on doing what it does whether I take a picture or not. My art--it's…

— Whitney Scharer

The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing…

— Berenice Abbott

I am not very interested in extraordinary angles. They can be effective on certain occasions, but I do not feel the necessity…

— Bill Brandt

There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's…

— Annie Leibovitz

There is an urgent need to examine old opinions and look at things from a new viewpoint. There must be an increase…

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

At the beginning of my career, a more senior photographer told me to shoot stories on women and I didn't want to.…

— Olivia Arthur

It is essential for the photographer to know the effect of his lenses. The lens is his eye, and it makes or…

— Bill Brandt

When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad... but it's hard trying to breathe in…

— Gary Lineker

Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content.

— Jay Maisel

Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's…

— Patti Smith

I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new…

— Edward Weston

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen…

— Irving Penn

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost…

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Think clearly, act sensibly, commit yourself to caring and work hard in order to discover joy. Then give the images back to…

— Bill Jay

As Estelle Jussim wrote, it is almost impossible for a single photograph to state both the problem and the solution.

— John Pfahl

My mother had taken me to photographer Paul Hesse, who used some of my pictures on magazine covers.

— Margaret O'Brien

I get photographers hiding in my bushes. We're way past autographs. We're into being stalked and followed.

— Jennifer Lawrence

A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder…

— Robert Doisneau

I met a photographer who agreed to give me a few lessons; in exchange, I had to pose naked for him.

— Sophie Calle

Every fashion photographer is completely different; the fact that they are so different is what makes it fun. You don't want to…

— Lara Stone

A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work.

— Gregory Heisler

Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.

— Robert Adams

Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked…

— Susan Sontag