Photographer Quotes · Page 63

By default, I am a travel photographer. I work on a combination of commissions and personal projects that take me around the…

— Martin Parr

You can take a good picture of anything. A bad one, too.

— William Eggleston

I'm a head-shot photographer. I have people come to my apartment, and I take their head shots.

— Colman Domingo

Up to and including the moment of exposure, the photographer is working in an undeniably subjective way. By his choice of technical…

— W. Eugene Smith

Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed…

— W. Eugene Smith

Some of my best work is done when I'm half asleep.

— Henry Wessel, Jr

I've noticed that the people who started on film still have the ability to see the person in front of them. Whereas…

— Keira Knightley

Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor…

— Pablo Picasso

As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.

— Rineke Dijkstra

The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.

— Minor White

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.

— Berenice Abbott

Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I…

— Harry Callahan

I really try to divorce myself from any thought of possible use of this stuff. That's part of the discipline. My only…

— Garry Winogrand

Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.

— Charles Baudelaire

I love photography and I love the art of photography. So when I'm working with high-level art photographers, I give them artistic…

— Helen Mirren

The camera is a fluid way of encountering that other reality

— Jerry Uelsmann

I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself…

— Sebastiao Salgado

A photographer who does not know how to translate his feelings and ideas into a graphically satisfactory form is bound to produce…

— Andreas Feininger

The thought for us [street photographers] was always: How much could we absorb and embrace of a moment of existence that would…

— Joel Meyerowitz

In England, I'm already labeled a rock photographer, which is a little insulting, because I'm not a rock photographer at all.

— Anton Corbijn

I do what feels natural, but I can't say I haven't thought about it.

— Stephen Shore

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

A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.

— Habib Umar bin Hafiz

I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come…

— Sebastiao Salgado