I always wanted to be a photographer. While I was at school, I got a lab-monkey holiday job in the darkrooms at… — Ben Schott Copy Share Image
To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
There's a really brilliant photographer who's deceased who in my sort of fashion and modelling days, I was fortunate enough to get… — Gabriel Mann Copy Share Image
If I could be said to have any kind of aesthetic, it’s sort of a magpie aesthetic—I just go and pick up… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
My Dad took a workshop from a photographer who worked at the Toledo Blade, a newspaper I delivered. I knew this photographer's… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the… — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image
I’ve always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they’re… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot.… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
I try to photograph people's spirits and thoughts. As to the soul-taking by the photographer, I don't feel I take away, but… — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. It is the photographer's job to get… — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The aim and end of the artist is not truth exactly, much less fact; it is effect... There is no doubt he… — Henry Peach Robinson Copy Share Image
Photographers want to reinvent you, to take you somewhere else, to show you in a completely different way. They look at your… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
Every successful photograph, except for lucky shots, begins with an idea and a plan. The more precisely a photographer knows what it… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
The most important question is, 'Am I asking the most important question?' The second most important question is, 'Am I asking the… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
“As a photographer you have a deep love for light, life and yourself. You know that the eyes of love aren’t blind,… — Marius Vieth Copy Share Image
When I look at things, I always see the space they occupy. I always want the space to reappear, to make a… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
My skin's not a normal sight. When a photographer says, 'I don't know what it is, but that's just not it...' I… — Winnie Harlow Copy Share Image
I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who… — John Dykstra Copy Share Image
“She grabbed her clutch bag and circled her arms around his neck. "Caulder McCutchen, I'm really not sure what you are." He… — Mary J. McCoy-Dressel Copy Share Image
When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic… — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
I never took it upon myself to change the world. And those contemporaries of mine who were going around falling for the… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded… — Robert Frank Copy Share Image
There have been times where I have definitely felt like I was a john. As a pin-up photographer for ten years, when… — Annie Sprinkle Copy Share Image
You learn to see by practice. It's Just like playing tennis, you get better the more you play. The more you look… — Eliot Porter Copy Share Image
I don't particularly care about photographic authorship. Whether an astronaut who doesn't even have a viewfinder makes an image, a robotic camera,… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
I have been using the art of photography to research the ways in which the pictorial strategies of the Nineteenth Century color… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
When I gave up my office job and became a full-time professional photographer, my fortunes certainly improved markedly. We moved away from… — Derek Ridgers Copy Share Image
I don't know what good composition is… Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a certain coming… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
What matters is not what you photograph, but why and how you photograph it. Even the most controversial subject, if depicted by… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
I think one of the aspects of photography that remains for me is I find the process still frustrating. The counter to… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
My first modeling job in Paris, the photographer said, 'Tue es belle,' which means, 'you are pretty,' and I thought he said,… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
![“I’ve always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they’re still interesting to me as pictures. If you turn a picture that’s not well organized upside down, it won’t work.” quote by William Eggleston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/973/william-eggleston-12373_abstract_i-ve-always-assumed-that-the-abstract-qu_2362279.jpg)
![“The aim and end of the artist is not truth exactly, much less fact; it is effect... There is no doubt he [the photographer] best gets his effect by way of truth, but he uses it as he would a servant, not a master.” quote by Henry Peach Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c1d/henry-peach-robinson-44163_aim_the-aim-and-end-of-the-artist-is-not-tru_2728659.jpg)
