Photographer Quotes · Page 77

I've always believed a great photographer should concentrate more on depth of feeling and less on depth of field.

— Max Dupain

Photographers can either look out the window at the world or they can look in the mirror.

— David Alan Harvey

The process must be concealed from - non-existent for - the photographer, who by definition need think of the art in the…

— Edwin Land

Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you…

— Anonymous

If there is a single factor which separates the best photographers from the wannabes it is the quantity of images which they…

— Bill Jay

In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

It 2001 when we started. But prior to that, I had made this website called sundancepics.com, where me and this other photographer,…

— Jeff Vespa

It used to bug me that I couldn't even afford to take my family for a proper holiday. I didn't have any…

— Boman Irani

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

— Lynn Shelton

I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself...

— Edward Steichen

I don't like explosions. I don't mind progress. But digital photography has made every man, woman, child and chimpanzee a photographer of…

— Elliott Erwitt

Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content.

— Jay Maisel

[To a photographer who said, 'Look this way, love':] I am not your 'love.' I am Your Royal Highness!

— Anne, Princess Royal

To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do.

— John Sexton

I've learned over the years that when you get a clue to another possibility to follow it through.

— Jerry Uelsmann

It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group…

— Brooke Shields

I seldom think when I take a picture. My eyes and fingers react - click. But first, it's most important to decide…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is…

— Robert Frank

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

I've heard many times that with all good artists it's ultimately a self-portrait even if it's an abstraction. I feel my work…

— Joyce Tenneson

I got a camera when I was nine years old and it wasn't until I was a model that I realized you…

— Nigel Barker

I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need…

— Walker Evans

I'm a very, very basic photographer. The main strength of my pictures, I guess, is the mood and feel I get out…

— Anton Corbijn

My photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. My prints show the…

— Alfred Stieglitz