Photographer Quotes · Page 8

I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.

— Berkeley Breathed

I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

— Berenice Abbott

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed,

— Garry Winogrand

To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

— Weegee

There are no photographs while I'm reloading .

— Garry Winogrand

The photographer is filled with doubt. Nothing will soothe him.

— Raymond Depardon

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

— Diane Arbus

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

— Edward Steichen

Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand.

— John Paul Caponigro

Realism and superrealism are what I'm after. This world is full of things the eye doesn't see. The camera can see more,…

— Andreas Feininger

There is a narrative behind every image. I often imagine being able to see the photographer standing behind the camera, or perhaps…

— James Welling

I'm not very daring in my street style, usually because there's a photographer around!

— Anne Hathaway

Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.

— Ansel Adams

Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer.

— Alec Soth

I didn't want to be a woman photographer. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman,…

— Eve Arnold

We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while…

— Criss Jami

You've got to struggle against the pollution of intelligence in order to become an animal with very sharp instincts - a sort…

— Robert Doisneau

“Where they are setting up the market, it used to be a place for torture,” Julien remarked, indicating the place in front…

— Mandy Baggot

Fantasy isn't something I put into the pictures; I don't try and inject them with a sense of play. But it's about…

— Tim Walker

It was only with the emergence of the Conceptualist approaches of the late 1960s that the opposition between artists using photography and…

— Jean-Francois Chevrier

I wasn't really that good at being a musician. And then I tried being a standup. I was an actor. I was…

— Garry Marshall

I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first…

— Douglass North

I go back and forth, but I never wanted to be the photographer of the gay and lesbian community. I will wave…

— Catherine Opie

A girl must have an indefinable magic, real character, a strong sense of self. Her role is to respond to the brief…

— Erin O'Connor

Ninety-nine percent of girls want to be models because they believe it will mean that they are the most beautiful women in…

— Crystal Renn

I have a completely worthless degree: a BS in Photojournalism from Boston University (BU). With this degree, I suppose I could have…

— Peter Menzel

In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In…

— Edward Weston

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

— Bill Jay

But before all else a work of art is the creation of love. Love for the subject first and for the medium…

— Eliot Porter

Now everyone's main objective of taking photographs is to have a photograph for Twitter or Facebook. I find that troubling. If you…

— Xaviera Simmons

I think because I do model for brands but it's never without input, ever. With AG I front their campaign, and obviously…

— Alexa Chung

My teacher introduced me to this photographer Eugène Atget. He was a French photographer in the late 1800s up until 1927 in…

— Jeff Vespa

Always shoot it now. It won't be the same when you go back.

— Jay Maisel

Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new

— Rory Sutherland

You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.

— Jay Maisel

Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference

— Robert Frank

I talk a lot about photography. It's cheap becuase my supply always exceeds demand.

— Bill Jay

I do not document anything, I give an interpretation.

— Andre Kertesz

There is no special way a photograph should look.

— Garry Winogrand

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

— Abraham Lincoln