Photographer Quotes · Page 41

As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the…

— Sally Mann

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I find myself every so often looking at my ground glass as though the unrecorded image might escape me!

— Edward Weston

The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with…

— Berenice Abbott

The picture is like a prayer, an offering, and hopefully an opening through which to seek what we don't know, or already…

— Emmet Gowin

Keep your mind open. You may very well learn something new about yourself and your pictures.

— Jay Maisel

“The photographer does the world a great disservice when he leaves his camera at home.”

— Mark Denman

The satisfaction comes from working next to 500 photographers and coming away with something different.

— David Burnett

Why can't a photograph be all four things at once? -be an art object; be a document, what ever that means exactly,…

— Stephen Shore

All photographs are about light. The great majority of photographs record light as a way of describing objects in space. A few…

— John Paul Caponigro

My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the…

— Annie Leibovitz

I totally disagree with the belief that nature was only made for the use of people. Human beings are not the center…

— Wynn Bullock

Fashion was very important to me because I could practice my acting skills, I could practice working with the camera, I could…

— Sergei Polunin

A lot of people have done that over the years. Many of the agencies today were started by photographers. It's a normal…

— Jeff Vespa

I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in…

— Gordon Parks

Out in the field I try not to hold expectations. I try to achieve an openness. The senses heighten so that I…

— Keith Lazelle

One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

— Annie Leibovitz

What matters most to me is to take photographs; to continue taking them and not to repeat myself. To go further, to…

— Josef Koudelka

Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols.

— Vilem Flusser

I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph.

— Stephen Shore

I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

— Irving Penn

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

— Lynn Shelton

“If life worked on auto mode then there manual mode for photography would have never existed.”

— Deeksha Mittal

I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.

— Lisa Marie Presley

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

— Sebastiao Salgado

I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret…

— John Sexton

I had so many unsold murder pictures lying around my room...I felt as if I were renting out a wing of the…

— Weegee

A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth…

— Alfred Stieglitz

It's one thing to make a beautiful thing; it's another thing to make a living thing.

— John Paul Caponigro

The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form.

— Beaumont Newhall

The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.

— Walker Evans

It's not how a photographer looks at the world that is important. It's their intimate relationship with it.

— Antoine D'Agata

I think that the photos that we like were made when the photographer knew how to disappear. If there were a secret,…

— Edouard Boubat

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

— Imogen Cunningham

The best way for photographers to become rich and famous is to go into another field.

— Bill Jay

I don't think at that time I realized how important it was and how important it was for me to be here…

— Kim Weston

If I had a picture of two handcuffed criminals being booked, I would cut the picture in half and get five bucks…

— Weegee

While making my picture window photographs, I came to think that every room was like a gigantic camera forever pointed at the…

— John Pfahl

I'm a terrible photographer.I'm not being modest. My photos really are crap. But in a way, the more the photo is crap,…

— Chantal Joffe

Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I…

— Harry Callahan