The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
A still photographer is a mechanic. He's not an artist, despite all you read. — Antony Armstrong-Jones Copy Share Image
A photographer doesn't just copy reality, but communicates to others what he or she experiences. — Walter Rosenblum Copy Share Image
Evolution in action: First, God said, 'Let there be light.' Then, he created two nude models. Now we have photographers. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe. — Nobuyoshi Araki Copy Share Image
As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish... This should make amateurs the happiest… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I… — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object. — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
A person cannot learn to be a photographer. He can only cultivate what he already has. I try to make people aware… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
I made 10 times as many images as the other students," he says of the early years. "I destroyed all those negatives… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
It's just seeing - at least the photography I care about. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic.… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
Something catches your eye, or your interest. You attack it in some way or observe it in some way, and try to… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
I think that the photographer must completely control his picture and bring to it all his personality, and in this area most… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
I do have strong convictions and political opinions, but I don't think it's necessary to imbue my photographic work with them. I… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
...and each time I pressed the shutter release it was a shouted condemnation hurled with the hope that the picture might survive… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
I always choose an area that is of personal interest, but I don't plan my travels in detail. There are so many… — Josef Hoflehner Copy Share Image
A photographer’s eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence of line simply by moving his head a fraction of a… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
As you see something that yo want to shot and it's bearing down on you, it's important to start framing long before… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
I never intended to write poems, nor to be a photographer, nor to be a film-maker. I just took many, many pictures… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
My whole artistic life has been devoted to battling myself and my ability to externalize my deepest emotions. As I have gotten… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I… — Cat Power Copy Share Image
The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
“Photography is like stealing.You rob someone of a moment that exposes something essential about their character,their soul if you like.there are people… — Esther Verhoef Copy Share Image
