Photographer Quotes · Page 49

I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I…

— Cat Power

Photographers - idiots, of which there are so many - say, "Oh, if only I had a Nikon or a Leica, I…

— Andreas Feininger

I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself - a matter of identity.

— Emmet Gowin

What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy…

— Diane Arbus

Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones.

— Robert Adams

One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.

— Ansel Adams

The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.

— Richard Avedon

What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.

— Eve Arnold

Today, I count myself blessed to have become a photographer. To be able to articulate the experiences of the voiceless, to bring…

— G.M.B. Akash

I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many…

— Lucas Grabeel

I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this…

— Lee Friedlander

Be aware of every square millimeter of your frame.

— Jay Maisel

When I'm approaching a water jump, with dozens of photographers waiting for me to fall in, and hundreds of spectators wondering what's…

— Anne, Princess Royal

The contemporary artist...is not bound to a fully conceived, previsioned end. His mind is kept alert to in-process discovery and a working…

— Jerry Uelsmann

If a medium is representational by nature of the realistic image formed by a lens, I see no reason why we should…

— Berenice Abbott

The entertainment industry, the advertising industry have taken [the] tools from the art world and made themselves much more politically potent. We…

— Jeff Koons

We feel more emotion... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer,…

— Chris Marker

Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the…

— Ansel Adams

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

— Duane Michals

I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is…

— Duane Michals

You have to have a lot of 'overage' so that your failures aren't the only thing you come home with. You've got…

— Jay Maisel

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea…

— Susan Sontag

A photographer is a photographer and an artist is an artist. I don't believe in labels or titles. Why should a painter…

— Peter Lindbergh

Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.

— Dorothea Lange

I'm kind of a twisted social documentary photographer.

— Catherine Opie