Photographer Quotes · Page 29

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing…

— Helmut Newton

A photographer doesn't always make a perfect frame, but he knows when and how to make one. And this is what actually…

— Nishan Panwar

The only way to understand something is to be confronted by something that is difficult to understand.

— Frederick Sommer

I've always believed a great photographer should concentrate more on depth of feeling and less on depth of field.

— Max Dupain

If I'd had the nerve, I'd have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn't, I became a photographer.

— Man Ray

The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the…

— Jay Maisel

We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers.

— Charlotte Cotton

I'm a head-shot photographer. I have people come to my apartment, and I take their head shots.

— Colman Domingo

I have a really hard time stepping out of a limousine and confronting a sh*tload of photographers who are all screaming at…

— Julia Ormond

We make pictures. At the end of the day, we create something potentially significant that did not exist at the beginning of…

— Joe McNally

My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a…

— Galen Rowell

The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but…

— Harry Callahan

'Tough' meant it was an uncompromising image, something that came from your gut, out of instinct, raw, of the moment, something that…

— Joel Meyerowitz

People think the camera steals their soul. Places, I am convinced, are affected in the opposite direction. The more they are photographed…

— John Pfahl

I think what inspires me is in a constant state of flux...it's easier to stick to photographers and perhaps cinematographers, though the…

— Anton Yelchin

I'm married to Kevin, a photographer whose career has put him on the campaign trail with presidential candidates and sent him on…

— Nancy Horan

[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such…

— Eve Babitz

When the photographer Philippe Halsman said, 'Jump,' no one asked how high. People simply pushed off or leapt up to the extent…

— Philippe Halsman

The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I don't want to be known as the guy who always takes his shirt off... I've done a lot of photo shoots…

— Kellan Lutz

The most dangerous thing I've ever encountered was a run-in with Boko Haram around 2007 in a small town in Nigeria. I…

— Eliza Griswold

Theres no such thing as Flickr Pro because today, with cameras as pervasive as they are, theres no such thing, really, as…

— Marissa Mayer

People who are close to me know, they so know that there were days when I was so tired that I would…

— Emma Watson

The contemporary artist...is not bound to a fully conceived, previsioned end. His mind is kept alert to in-process discovery and a working…

— Jerry Uelsmann

All photography is Pop, and all photographers are crazy... they feel guilty since they don't have to do very much - just…

— Andy Warhol

If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.

— Edward Weston

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to…

— Edward Weston

No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a…

— Bill Brandt

If I am dissatisfied, it's simply because good photos are few and far between. A good photo is a miracle.

— Josef Koudelka

I print giclees for artists and photographers for a livelihood. My original idea was to somehow combine the two.

— Donald Lambert

I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.

— Edward Weston

When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

— Marina Warner

I've had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or for film posters.

— Keira Knightley

We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.

— Ernst Haas

Words of wisdom for every photographer: 'Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking'. So said Goethe.

— Bill Jay

If I already have a vision, my work is almost done. The rest is a technical problem.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

Many photographers live in a dream world of beautiful backgrounds. It wouldn’t hurt them to get a taste of reality to wake…

— Weegee

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.

— William Eggleston

Believe in yourself. Listen to the photographers you work with, and try to be professional at all time.

— Alessandra Ambrosio

Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson