Photographer Quotes · Page 35

In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation.

— Frederick Sommer

I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not…

— Chuck Close

a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.

— Vincent Van Gogh

There are a lot of photographers who have influenced me; some of the great ones, like Herb Ritts, Helmut Newton, and [Alfred]…

— Leonard Nimoy

Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. I just project my…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

— Pablo Picasso

I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing.

— Joyce Tenneson

I love when pictures ask questions or make others ask questions.

— Jay Maisel

The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that…

— Sebastiao Salgado

Pop art is for everyone.

— Andy Warhol

I'm a photographer and my pictures are used in advertising campaigns. But I don't do advertising. Do you hear me? I take…

— Oliviero Toscani

How do we know what we know? Is seeing believing? Is believing seeing?

— John Paul Caponigro

I've never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I…

— Dorothea Lange

[Women photographers] provide an inspiring reminder to all women that the choice to see, or be seen, is ours. We live in…

— Diane Keaton

You just have to live and life will give you pictures.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy,…

— Ernst Haas

Reality is greater than our dreams.

— Frederick Sommer

I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer…

— Josef Koudelka

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

— Diane Arbus

Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or…

— Valentino Garavani

The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have…

— Frederick Sommer

Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.

— Garry Winogrand

I prefer to be noticed some day, first for my ideas and second for my good eye.

— Ernst Haas

Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer.

— Alec Soth

My first big job was an Abercrombie &Fitch campaign. But my mom wouldn't let me skip school for it, so I missed…

— Lauren Bush