In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
I used to be a photographer - and now I'm some kind of digital photographic artist. — Chris Jordan Copy Share Image
... to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time. — Brassai Copy Share Image
“Why you like photography so much? Because it's just the camera and me showing everyone else what we can see. It's telling… — Lindsey Kelk Copy Share Image
To talk about photos rather than making them seems idiotic to me. It's as though I went on and on about a… — Jacques-Henri Lartigue Copy Share Image
The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time. — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating… — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
I didn’t see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn’t make those boundaries. If someone wants to… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
This idea fascinates me. The idea that a few seconds of watching a photographer in action can tell you his/her status in… — David Hurn Copy Share Image
“A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably… — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake...spiritually driven work constitutes the… — William Albert Allard Copy Share Image
“You're a photographer, for Pete's sake. You need a photo of yourself front and center." "Well, yes, but..." A deep sigh followed… — Janice Thompson Copy Share Image
... the possibility of one particular photographer's pictures lying around the corner is never realized until the photographer is there. It's one… — Alex Webb Copy Share Image
The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to know what you stand for, no? Most… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into… — Arnold Newman Copy Share Image
It seems to be extensively believed by photographers that meanings are to be found in the world much in the way rabbits… — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
To do a portrait today, I decide how close I can get to my subject. First, of course, mentally or intellectually, then… — Victor Skrebneski Copy Share Image
I had no aspirations to become a landscape photographer at all. In fact it was portraiture that was my beginning, I suppose.… — Fay Godwin Copy Share Image
“I see it all through the lens of my camera—the flurry of movement, the venue staff in black T-shirts, giving orders into… — Emery Lord Copy Share Image
To me a translator is very, very important. If the fixer is also the translator, so much the better. I have known… — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
We all expect photographs to be a picture of something. We assume that the photographer observed a place, a person, an event… — Uta Barth Copy Share Image
But everyone cannot be there, and that is why photographers go there, to show them, to reach out and grab them and… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
A picture is what it is and I've never noticed that it helps to talk about them, or answer specific questions about… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
