Photographer Quotes · Page 28

It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.

— Diane Arbus

My advice is: learn from the best or teach yourself. And do not bother at all if you do not have an…

— David Hurn

The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things.

— Frederick Sommer

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

— Berenice Abbott

We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for…

— Minor White

Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those…

— John Paul Caponigro

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

— Philippe Halsman

My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to…

— W. Eugene Smith

Especially when you are advertising a product, I talk to the photographer and we create a character - it always gives you…

— Penelope Cruz

The greatest compliment that I know how to pay another photographer is to say, 'I never would have made that photograph myself.…

— John Sexton

I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could…

— Cindy Sherman

I started teaching in '76 and I'd been a photographer at the Geographic for six years. But prior to being at the…

— Sam Abell

The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is…

— Richard Avedon

Edward [Weston] was the first artist - and I don't use the word lightly - to make a living doing art photography.…

— Rondal Partridge

While primarily a photographer, I do not see or think photographically; hence the story of Indian life will not be told in…

— Edward S. Curtis

If a medium is representational by nature of the realistic image formed by a lens, I see no reason why we should…

— Berenice Abbott

I don’t use an exposure meter. My personal advice is: Spend the money you would put into such an instrument for film.…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

Don't get me wrong, Carter Smith is an insanely talented photographer, but as a director he approached it more from a story…

— Cameron Monaghan

Composition is what's similar between being photographer and director. As a photographer, you're sort of doing everything - you're directing the lights…

— Russell James

Always, when the words art and artistic are applied to my photographic work, I am disagreeably affected. This is due, surely, to…

— Tina Modotti

Camera lies all the time. It’s all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when…

— Richard Avedon

Many students don't really like it (fashion). If they don't like it, they won't be able to tell you who the stylists…

— Louise Wilson

Sometimes a photographer is a passenger, sometimes a person who stays in one place. What he watches changes constantly, but his watching…

— Shomei Tomatsu

The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the…

— Paul Strand

When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.

— Patrick Demarchelier

I fell in love with traveling and thought being a photographer would be an interesting way to travel and make a living.

— Peter Menzel

[The] arresting of time is photography's unique capacity, and the decision of when to click the shutter is the photographer's chief responsibility.

— Janet Malcolm

It's not just when you shoot, or what you shot, or where you shoot, it's the combination of the three.

— Jay Maisel

Teachers don't work in the summer, and photographers don't shoot in in the middle of the day.

— John Loengard

All the good pictures that came so easily now make the next set of pictures virtually impossible in your mind.

— Sally Mann

I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone.

— Saoirse Ronan

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given.

— Eve Arnold

I was a Valley girl; I hung out, and through a photographer friend. I met Peter Douglas, who was one of Kirk…

— Theresa Russell

Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer.

— Berenice Abbott

Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times?

— David Byrne

One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.

— Ansel Adams

Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going…

— Joel Meyerowitz

We don't have only two eyes; we have hundreds of wonderful eyes, because there are hundreds of wonderful photographers!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you can imagine photography in the guise of a woman and you’d ask her what she thought of Stieglitz, she’d say:…

— Alfred Stieglitz

In England, I'm already labeled a rock photographer, which is a little insulting, because I'm not a rock photographer at all.

— Anton Corbijn