Reality has become a parallel universe with photographers returning with different versions of what it truly looks like. — Philip-Lorca diCorcia Copy Share Image
A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line… — Robert Frank Copy Share Image
I liked the idea of being a photographer, just that you take this one picture of this one thing that'll never happen… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them. — Sid Grossman Copy Share Image
Different people can photograph the same things with the same tools and create such different images. — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
I appreciate photographs which celebrate harmony. I don't particularly want to look at chaos. I see enough of that at home. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.) — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
I wanted it to provide an escape route, I wanted to make pictures that were fantastic and took you into another world,… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
As a model you have to convey something with one look - and actors will have a scene and they can sort… — David Gandy Copy Share Image
Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
I like to move as much as possible and look at reflections, weird angles, subjects from airplanes and cranes. I feel sorry… — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
Max Kozloff said to me one day, ‘You’re not really a photographer. You do photography, but you do it for your own… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
When I'm approaching a water jump, with dozens of photographers waiting for me to fall in, and hundreds of spectators wondering what's… — Anne, Princess Royal Copy Share Image
It's possible to think of photography as an act of editing, a matter of where you put your rectangle pull it out… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Photography must seize upon this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it. The photographers eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
A girl's career today doesn't have the same kind of life span, whereas it used to be a collaboration and a partnership… — Michael Flutie Copy Share Image
I was so lucky that I got to meet certain people. It came through Roddy McDowall, who had become a photographer and… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
There's never a time that I'm not intrusive. That's the base of what we - photographers - do: we're intrusive. Anyone saying… — Eugene Richards Copy Share Image
There are a lot of ways to talk about the life of a photograph. You can talk about the afterlife of a… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them. — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
If I came out a photographer it's because I knew about painting, composition, and the handling of light. — Lola Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything! — Jacques-Henri Lartigue Copy Share Image
There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Thoughtfulness begins with seeing. My job as a photographer is to make that seeing easier. What we appreciate, what fascinates us, we… — Mattias Klum Copy Share Image
A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar. — Freeman Patterson Copy Share Image
To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing. — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family; I… — Cornell Capa Copy Share Image
I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer. — Bill Eppridge Copy Share Image
“A photograph is a frozen moment, but a great photographer captures the soul of that moment.” — Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer Copy Share Image
You have to pick the right tool for the point you're trying to make and there is no one solution. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years) — Danny Lyon Copy Share Image
