I don't think it's necessary to put your feelings about photography in words. I've read things that photographers have written for exhibitions… — Eliot Porter 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
I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed, — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I didn't think of what I was doing as political. To me it was a way to make the best out of… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
I like photographers - you don't ask questions. (To a gathering of the White House News Photographers Association) — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have. — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
There is a myth that the portrait photographer is supposed to make the subject relax, and that's the real person. But I'm… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
The documentary photographer aims his camera at the real world to record truthfulness. At the same time, he must strive for form,… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to try and enjoy life because you never know when it will be gone. If you wake… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
I fell in love with the darkroom, and that was part of being a photographer at the time. The darkroom was unbelievably… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer. — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
If you can't make the image bigger or more important than what you see, then don't push the button — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
"It is light that reveals, light that obscures, light that communicates. It is light I "listen" to. The light late in the… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
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
The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But]… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film. — Weegee Copy Share Image
I print giclees for artists and photographers for a livelihood. My original idea was to somehow combine the two. — Donald Lambert Copy Share Image
A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera… — Arnold Newman Copy Share Image
I started photography more or less by accident when I was already 27. I was taken on as an assistant by a… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I went from being an underpaid ad man to quite a successful photographer in a very short time. Success breeds confidence and… — Derek Ridgers Copy Share Image
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
When you're with people that are aware of the fact that you're a photographer, they'll say, "Oh, look at that! That's something… — Ari Marcopoulos Copy Share Image
