Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls.… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic)… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As for garden photographers, how differently they see things. With what ease the camera seems to compose a picture of great beauty… — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
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 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
Ambiguity is really important to me. Part of the difficulty facing photographers is that almost any subject matter has accumulated a representational… — Larry Sultan 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
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
There is a great quote from a female writer. She said, 'If you don't break out in a sweat of fear when… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
I thought I had a huge crush on a young Canadian photographer who was commissioned to go down to Australia to do… — Deborah Kara Unger Copy Share Image
Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being… — Howard S. Becker Copy Share Image
My job is, I'm a photographer. I'm something of a filmmaker. And primarily, I'm an adventurer. My job is to help people… — Sebastian Copeland Copy Share Image
Who was the first photographer in the world? Who was the first woman photographer in the world? Who was the first man… — Brandon McCaw Copy Share Image
Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Well, I'm not going to get into that. I think that those kind of distinctions and lists of titles like "street photographer"… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved to have done something… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
I believe that the source of your inspiration is very important. I sometimes see this problem with photographers, even very good ones,… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group… — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
...one day I was speculating on how I would like to look back on life and I decided I wanted to feel… — David Hurn Copy Share Image
I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject… — David Hurn Copy Share Image
A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
“My credo about my photography: We wander through the world, perceiving so much - and yet so little. My passion is to… — Frank Henrich Copy Share Image
Today, the smartphone in your pocket has a high-quality digital camera. Everyone - not just artists - is a photographer, and the… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get… — Don McCullin Copy Share Image
I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
What's happened is that the digital age has made photography more accessible to people. Everyone is a photographer. But to do it… — Bryan Adams Copy Share Image
I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The difference between a good picture and a mediocre picture is a question of millimeters - small, small differences - but it’s… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when… — Graeme Le Saux Copy Share Image
There's a rapport that any photographer is going to have with his subject matter. And if you don't have a rapport, you're… — Bruce Barnbaum Copy Share Image
When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium… — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
I can one day do dance, and the next maybe do a movie, and then maybe I can choreograph, or work with… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image