Photographer Quotes · Page 32

I wanted to make pictures that felt natural, that felt like seeing, that didn’t feel like taking something in the world and…

— Stephen Shore

I know that sometimes the chemistry just isn't there between the model, photographer, hair and make-up. It's nobody's fault and you just…

— Linda Evangelista

Photography is something you learn to love very quickly. I know that many, many things are going to ask me to have…

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

“When your heart jumps every time your camera locks focus...You've become a photographer.”

— Mark Denman

These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command--positi on and timing--all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them

— David Hurn

For me, the best part is people who watch the movie and tell me it inspired them to collaborate with their friend…

— Feist

I started modeling and after a while the photographer Bruce Weber introduced me to Joel Schumacher, who cast me in my first…

— Cody Horn

Aside from my modelling, by the early Nineties I was also starting to work as a photographer, which I loved.

— Janice Dickinson

My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when…

— Graeme Le Saux

There's a rapport that any photographer is going to have with his subject matter. And if you don't have a rapport, you're…

— Bruce Barnbaum

When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium…

— Jerry Uelsmann

I have always done the opposite of what I was trained to do... Having little technical background, I became a photographer. Adopting…

— William Klein

When assignments were over, photography continued. One of the primary reasons it did was that I wanted and needed to have fresh…

— Sam Abell

I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the…

— Michael Bergin

You know, I must really work hard. I'm in the last stage of my artistic life. But I'm so busy that I…

— Yayoi Kusama

I can one day do dance, and the next maybe do a movie, and then maybe I can choreograph, or work with…

— Sergei Polunin

I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a…

— Helmut Newton

The images which the [press] photographer has filtered from reality, whether particular events or the anguish of human reactions to them, already…

— Yukio Mishima

Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, autobiography is…

— Robert Adams

Once a photographer is convinced that the camera can lie and that, strictly speaking, the vast majority of photographs are camera lies,…

— Andreas Feininger

When we hold a photo negative up to the light all objects are reversed. Black is white, white is black. Moreover, the…

— Catherine Marshall

I work alone. Humans are incredible, because when you come alone, they will receive you, they accept you, they protect you, they…

— Sebastiao Salgado

Anyday, one can walk down the street in a big city and see a thousand people. Any photographer can photograph these people…

— Langston Hughes

Photographers do themselves a disservice by talking too much about the equipment they use. Consequently people don't take them seriously as creators…

— Peter Turnley

You always end up with too many pictures to edit and too few that you feel 'got it'.

— Jay Maisel

I want pictures like these. The kind that can capture a moment, make it real, make it last. I need pictures that…

— Lisa Mangum

I did some artistic nudes when I was I 8 with a French-Canadian photographer while I was modeling. They were beautiful shots,…

— Lexa Doig

I feel as if I've been fairly successful with maintaining a cohesive tone between the work I make as a photographer and…

— Aaron Ruell

“No matter how sophisticated the camera, the photographer is still the one that makes it.”

— Doug Bartlow

The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with…

— Alfred Stieglitz

People think: 'If this photographer's looking like a big jerk-off, maybe it's okay if I do.' I like to catch my subjects…

— Mick Rock

I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find…

— Harry Callahan

I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.

— Berenice Abbott

If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it.

— Jay Maisel

Herein lies the main objective of portraiture and also its main difficulty. The photographer probes for the innermost. The lens sees only…

— Philippe Halsman

The wandering photographer sees the same show that everyone else sees. He, however, stops to watch it.

— Edouard Boubat

The photographer can arrange his picture just as the painter does, only sometimes he must go about it in a different way.

— Laura Gilpin

Mars and Venus are at it again. This time, Hephaestus is standing by with a private detective, a photographer, and a lawyer.

— Mason Cooley

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

— Garry Winogrand

I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.

— Garry Winogrand