Photographer Quotes · Page 43

I like the simple things. I don't know why. I'm that way. I came from a simple place.

— Harry Callahan

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really…

— James Taylor

The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

[To a photographer who said, 'Look this way, love':] I am not your 'love.' I am Your Royal Highness!

— Anne, Princess Royal

I have a deep respect and love for these tiny humans, and I hope to convey in my images a measure of…

— Anne Geddes

Images are altered in many ways, to many degrees, and for many reasons, so it's important for viewers to be informed of…

— John Paul Caponigro

As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.

— Rineke Dijkstra

Reporters listen, photographers look. If you are doing your job seriously as a photojournalist, your sight must be the primary sense that…

— Bill Eppridge

It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times.…

— Brassai

I work rather blindly. I have a theory that seems to work with me that some of the best things you ever…

— Walker Evans

It's disgusting. Why would people idolize someone who doesn’t do anything and saying you're a model/photographer with a digital camera and photoshop…

— Ryan Ross

You become things, you become an atmosphere, and if you become it, which means you incorporate it within you, you can also…

— Ernst Haas

I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents…

— Walker Evans

We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your…

— Joel Meyerowitz

When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order…

— Aaron Siskind

Aesthetics does not exist for the camera as an isolated entity. Aesthetics, in fact, is inseparable from the purpose of the photographer…

— Sid Grossman

Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.

— Nikki Giovanni

I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little…

— Chuck Close

Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!

— John Sexton

If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.

— Ruth Bernhard

All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they…

— Roland Barthes

I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the…

— Ansel Adams

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

— Duane Michals

It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.

— Walker Evans

A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars.

— Guy Le Querrec

A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

A snapshot steals life that it cannot return. A long exposure [creates] a form that never existed.

— Dieter Appelt

All these factors are only valuable if you're curious. But in any case, the more knowledge you have, the more things are…

— Jay Maisel

Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the…

— W. Eugene Smith

Natural talent means to have the ability to transform, to evolve, to play and role-play with the photographer and the stylist. And…

— Michael Flutie

I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and…

— Walker Evans

I think not being a professional photographer was actually a blessing, because it allowed me to shoot things professional photographers wouldn't shoot,…

— Dennis Hopper

I can't speak for other photographers, but the photographers who went forward strongly when the so-called "official" part of their career ended,…

— Sam Abell

Then I got this idea in my head that magazines were like a gallery and if you got your magazine page ripped…

— David LaChapelle

Of course, this is one of the really important things about art, that you can make more than you can understand at…

— Emmet Gowin

As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of…

— Van Deren Coke

What my eyes seek in these encounters is not just the beauty traditionally revered by wildlife photographers. The perfection I seek in…

— Frans Lanting

My mother was a famous photographer for actresses, including Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, and so many. I remember I went to school…

— Dario Argento

I wanted to combine science and photography in a sensible, unemotional way. Some people’s ideas of scientific photography is just arty design,…

— Berenice Abbott

... I think it is fair to say that all war photographers hide behind their cameras. I hid behind mine for years…

— Carl Mydans