They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take… — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Making pictures is a very simple act. There is no great secret in photography...schools are a bunch of crap. You just need… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism. — Cornell Capa Copy Share Image
“A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
I fell in love with traveling and thought being a photographer would be an interesting way to travel and make a living. — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
Photographs are never records of the way things are; they're records of the way things were. — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe. — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
Some photographers shoot hundreds of pictures in a row and you need to be able to move from pose to pose very… — Jamie Eason Copy Share Image
It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air. — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference — Robert Frank Copy Share Image
Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance. — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
I enjoy traveling and recording far-away places and people with my camera. But I also find it wonderfully rewarding to see what… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
If you are engaging rationality, you are already engaging a place that makes you unavailable. Only when I recognize that inspiration has… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
To be a good hairdresser, you have to understand what the vision is of the designer or the photographer and then sort… — Guido Palau Copy Share Image
You’ve gotta taste the light, like my friend and fellow shooter Chip Maury says. And when you see light like this, trust… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
It's important to understand it's OK to control the subject. If most editorial stories were photographed just as they are, editors would… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
By some special graciousness of fate I am deposited - as all good photographers like to be - in the right place… — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
