Photographer Quotes · Page 35

I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things…

— Walker Evans

The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind…

— Alber Elbaz

I’m so worried that I’m going to perfect [my] technique someday. I have to say its unfortunate how many of my pictures…

— Sally Mann

The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

It's important to realize that the images are everywhere, not just where you want or expect them to be.

— Jay Maisel

You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good…

— Galen Rowell

I was going round the world searching for an interesting place, when I realized that the place that I was in was…

— Emmet Gowin

Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Today, the smartphone in your pocket has a high-quality digital camera. Everyone - not just artists - is a photographer, and the…

— Peter Diamandis

Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences…

— Duane Michals

What I feel is that the picture-taking process, anyway a greater part of it, is an intuitive thing. You can't go out…

— Wynn Bullock

Outstanding past work in photography, and in fact in all the arts, is very important to today's photographers. But it should be…

— Alexey Brodovitch

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope…

— Anonymous

As for garden photographers, how differently they see things. With what ease the camera seems to compose a picture of great beauty…

— Mirabel Osler

The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic)…

— Roland Barthes

Ambiguity is really important to me. Part of the difficulty facing photographers is that almost any subject matter has accumulated a representational…

— Larry Sultan

Anthropology... has always been highly dependent upon photography... As the use of still photography - and moving pictures - has become increasingly…

— Margaret Mead

The decisive moment, the popular Henri Cartier-Bresson approach to photography in which a scene is stopped and depicted at a certain point…

— Fred Ritchin

I was photographing the photographer Brassaï. He had very prominent eyes, like a frog's. As I focused my lens, he brought his…

— John Loengard

I think we, as a fasion industry, need to hold people accountable for their actions. I want people to realize that models…

— Sara Sampaio

I think self-portraits are very difficult. I’ve always seen mine as straightforward, very stripped down, hair pulled back. No shirt. Whatever light…

— Annie Leibovitz

One night I was on my [Navy] ship... on my first cruise crossing the North Atlantic in a horrible storm, chained to…

— Ralph Gibson

'Ornithologists concluded that migratory birds take hundreds of naps as they fly; they also practice unilateral eye closure, in which one eye…

— Bill Jay

It's a little bit like talking about the life of writing. The life of writing may be about many things, but it…

— Sam Abell

There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.

— Ruth Bernhard

I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye in practice.

— Josef Koudelka

You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.

— Elliott Erwitt

Some people have told me they remember the film that one of my images is derived from, but in fact I had…

— Cindy Sherman

Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

“Whenever we look at a photograph, the memories in the photograph become our memories as well!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve…

— Diane Arbus

I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.

— Joan Fontcuberta

I can’t stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they…

— W. Eugene Smith

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

— Sally Mann

I feel all things as dynamic events, being, changing, and interacting with each other in space and time even as I photograph…

— Wynn Bullock

I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need…

— Walker Evans

Always wait for the trigger. The trigger is the final part of the puzzle, the reason you want to shoot.

— Jay Maisel

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

— Edward Steichen

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it…

— Brooks Atkinson

I believe that photographers should be passionate, determined, disciplined and ready to seek out their own styles and identities.

— Michael Kenna