Photographer Quotes · Page 30

Many photographers are consumed with the idea of making beautiful contact sheets. I am far more interested in making the best final…

— John Sexton

Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent.

— Ray Metzker

I didn't see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest…

— John Baldessari

I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just…

— Elliott Erwitt

I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.

— Harry Callahan

I'm the world's most famous photographer, most sought after photographer, most awarded photographer.

— Peter Lik

Keep alive the fact that a mystery has come into existence and that a physical being serves as a house for this…

— Paul Caponigro

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and…

— George Eastman

It should be the aim of every photographer to make a single exposure that shows everything about the subject. I have been…

— Yousuf Karsh

You know, my dad wasn't a photographer or filmmaker by profession, but on Sundays, he would take pictures of me and my…

— Bruce Weber

Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that…

— Ellsworth Kelly

“Being a photographer isn’t a choice but a discovery. One day, you awaken to the pull of light and shadow, the lens…

— Craig Varjabedian

We're responsible for everything that's included in the frame. We're also responsible for what's not included in the frame. We're responsible for…

— John Paul Caponigro

Just as a fisherman cannot catch fish unless his line is in the water, a wildlife photographer cannot shoot great wildlife images…

— George H. Harrison

This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I like to think I keep my mind open. When I walk the streets I don't look for anything in particular. I…

— Elliott Erwitt

I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction…

— Sebastiao Salgado

Strangers with puzzled looks were amazingly cooperative in letting me into their rooms with my photographic gear. They let me take down…

— John Pfahl

There are a lot of perks that come with fame and with every positive there's a negative and then it all kind…

— Ashton Kutcher

... in the eyes of its visitors, Venice has no reality of its own. Anyone visiting the place has already seen so…

— Christian Boltanski

Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits…

— Aaron Siskind

Most photographers go and photograph something that they see, that exists, and that somebody else has created - they document it. But…

— Mario Testino

Images of people, cities, and landscapes from the air tell a unique story about our personal space and how we relate to…

— Vincent Laforet

My father is doing a radio program - classical music. He has a beautiful speaking voice and that's his passion in life,…

— Olivia Newton-John

I guess I'm adaptable. You know, I turn up at work and [photographers] can kind of do what they want with me,…

— Kate Moss

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable posing for a photographer; I was never trained.

— Fala Chen

Thus, during the winter of 2003 I ventured into a new arena as a professional photographer.

— Janine Turner

Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a person - the life you…

— Nigel Barker

Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.

— Jessa Crispin

When you understand how to do that dance, when the photographer says, 'Hold it, do it,' and you know you're getting it…

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.

— Rondal Partridge

If you're not a curious person, you're certainly not going to be a good photographer.

— Elliott Erwitt

I wasn't imposing my presence on anyone, which is very important for a would- be journalist. I stayed back. Always let people…

— Elliott Erwitt

I think I have been able to eliminate the idea of a third person: the Intruding Photographer.

— Ralph Eugene Meatyard

To be a good hairdresser, you have to understand what the vision is of the designer or the photographer and then sort…

— Guido Palau

Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.

— Ansel Adams

The vast number of photographers, feeding on anything visible, overgraze the landscape the way cattle overgraze their pasture.

— Wright Morris

As a photographer, I'm interested in how dramatically photography has changed. Most images are not real or are composites, and most of…

— David Allee

You are responsible for every part of your image, even the parts you’re not interested in.

— Jay Maisel

When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his…

— Edward Weston