Photographer Quotes · Page 31

The key is to not let the camera, which depicts nature in so much detail, reveal just what the eye picks up,…

— Paul Caponigro

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

— Susan Sontag

“What do we feel when we look at a good photograph? We just want to be there, right at the exact moment…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

[My work as a photographer is a] mission to document endangered species and landscapes in order to show a world worth saving.

— Joel Sartore

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea…

— Susan Sontag

I never take photographs myself. I don’t feel like a photographer, more like a recycler

— Christian Boltanski

A lot of models achieve that kind of iconic position by working primarily with one photographer.

— Marc Jacobs

... nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of…

— Walker Evans

My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license…

— Jerry Uelsmann

Men die, heroically or fruitlessly, but man carries on. In Israel it is the same: the farmer must till the fields, the…

— Leonard Freed

Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get…

— Don McCullin

I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this…

— Lee Friedlander

The difference between a good picture and a mediocre picture is a question of millimeters - small, small differences - but it’s…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back…

— Sally Mann

What's happened is that the digital age has made photography more accessible to people. Everyone is a photographer. But to do it…

— Bryan Adams

I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should…

— Ansel Adams

My work has gotten a bit strange. I do consulting, and people ask, "Could you give me your opinion on this, and…

— Garance Dore

More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues.…

— Beaumont Newhall

Somewhere in our search for reality we have passed something by, something important that we no longer find amid the bits and…

— Walker Evans

This is life. It is everywhere, and it is here for the taking. I am alive and I know this, now, in…

— Bill Jay

Getting photographs is not the most important thing. For me it's the act of photographing. It's enlightening, therapeutic and satisfying, because the…

— Michael Kenna

Photojournalism has become a hybrid enterprise of amateurs and professionals, along with surveillance cameras, Google Street Views, and other sources. What is…

— Fred Ritchin

The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it…

— Paul Strand

I think everything can be painted because painting can change reality; but everything cannot be photographed and the photographer often comes home…

— Martine Franck

“The good photo settles in your eye; the better photo settles in your mind, but the best photo settles in your heart!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

— Garry Winogrand

Me and my friends had BMX magazines and skate magazines, and I was a photographer who made skate videos.

— Spike Jonze

I like photographers - you don't ask questions. (To a gathering of the White House News Photographers Association)

— Ronald Reagan

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

— George Bernard Shaw

“The subject, timing and light makes a photograph, great. Greater, is the photographer when he senses these are right.”

— Kowtham Kumar K

Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going…

— Edward Weston

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— Edward Abbey

Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.

— Frederick Sommer

I wanted to show the thing that had to be corrected: I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated.

— Lewis Hine

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

— George Bernard Shaw

You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.

— Elliott Erwitt

This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.

— Emmet Gowin

I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.

— Elliott Erwitt

I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is.

— Mary Ellen Mark

I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care…

— Irving Penn