Photographer Quotes · Page 7

Of course it's all luck.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

You photograph with all your ideology.

— Sebastiao Salgado

I always said 'yes' to everything.

— Ruth Bernhard

In the arts there are many right answers.

— Jerry Uelsmann

Photographers are always imposing

— Susan Sontag

Beauty can be seen in all things.

— Matt Hardy

A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself.

— John Szarkowski

We all have a family member who think they're a professional photographer.

— Anonymous

Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.

— Jay Maisel

I would never censor something to please someone. I don't play games.

— Joyce Tenneson

The influence of mystery is the greatest influence.

— Paul Caponigro

I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it.

— Jay Maisel

Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.

— Andy Warhol

I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.

— August Strindberg

We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass…

— Margaret Bourke-White

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 believe it is the photographer's function to reveal that which is concealed, even if it be repugnant to the majority, not…

— Arthur Tress

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a…

— Susan Meiselas

“I am always learning and growing as a photographer. I am always looking for new ways to improve my skills and capture…

— Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer

We photographers say that we take a picture, and in a certain sense, that is true. We take something from people's lives,…

— Steve McCurry

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter.

— Annie Parisse

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

— Andy Warhol

In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and…

— Peter C Bunnell

[The photographer's task] is to describe the existing light... Chances are, if you believe the light, you're going to believe that the…

— Henry Wessel, Jr

When I photograph, I do not think much. If you looked at my contacts you would ask yourself: "What is this guy…

— Josef Koudelka

What I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach to photography is the addition of lyricism.[this quality] is usually produced…

— Walker Evans

When you respect somebody who has talent, whether it's a designer or a photographer, then you don't want to let yourself down…

— Guido Palau

When you're in a relationship with a photographer, and they start abusing that relationship and being like, 'I want you to do…

— Kate Moss

Many photographers are apt to confuse color with noise, and to congratulate themselves when they have almost blown you down with screeching…

— Walker Evans

I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very…

— Walker Evans

I thought about how to film something, how to take pictures of it and how to mix it all together. And I…

— Steven Sebring

I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of…

— Edward Weston

What is the art experience about? Really, I'm not interested in making Art at all. I never, ever, think about it. To…

— Joel Meyerowitz

There's something arbitrary about taking a picture. So I can stand at the edge of a highway and take one step forward…

— Stephen Shore

I started out, in the mid-'70s, taking photographs of rock bands that I liked but not because I really wanted to photograph…

— Derek Ridgers

At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography…

— Paul Caponigro

As the photographer, it's challenging to make images that read quickly and are powerful, but have enough humanity and compassion. I've worked…

— Stephanie Sinclair

I was taking all prints and I brought them to the Magnum meetings, trying the old Josef Koudelka trick: Give them to…

— Peter van Agtmael

I wanted to be the photographer of happiness.

— Malick Sidibe

It’s a very weird thing being a photographer.

— Danny Lyon