Photographer Quotes · Page 65

I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind…

— Sebastiao Salgado

At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands before our camera, to honor what is greater and…

— Robert Adams

In some areas, [Getty Images has] more images than the rest of the market put together. But libraries are being built up…

— Mark Getty

For spiritual companions I have had the many artists who have relied on nature to help shape their imagination. And their most…

— Sam Abell

The photographer in my head says: Give me peace. Flash. Give me release. Flash.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

— Annie Leibovitz

I wanted to be the photographer of happiness.

— Malick Sidibe

...everything around us, dead or alive, in the eyes of a crazy photographer mysteriously takes on many variations, so that a seemingly…

— Josef Sudek

You find that you have to do many things, more than just lift up the camera and shoot, and so you get…

— Jay Maisel

Nowadays, photographers start out with ideas, and their photos become the expression of an idea. To my way of thinking, a photo…

— Edouard Boubat

When I revealed the campaign, some lady in the front row, a photographer, asked "is that airbrushed?" So I just lifted my…

— Dara Torres

Often when I walked alone in the mountains, I tried to make sense out of the two halves of my life. What…

— Galen Rowell

My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when…

— Graeme Le Saux

I don't know who said 'pictures don't lie.' It couldn't have been a photographer.

— Linda Palmer

I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them…

— Robert Mapplethorpe

Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.

— Garry Winogrand

After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in…

— Daniel Silva

One shouldn’t be only two photographers but thousands.

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Don't park... Arrival is the death of inspiration.

— Ernst Haas

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

— Imogen Cunningham

Even though the industry is very big and there's lots of money, when it gets down to it, whether it's a photographer…

— Guido Palau

“When I make a photograph I feel that I hold a piece of the universe in my hands.”

— Paul Chaplo

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

— Sam Abell

What you're shooting at doesn't matter, the real question is: 'Does it give you joy?'

— Jay Maisel

I always found it rather pathetic that as a photographer I would be dependent to such a large extent on sheer luck...…

— Pedro Meyer