Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it?… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
“Not everyone with a painting brush is an artist, likewise not everyone with a camera is a photographer ” — Ewlyn Fernando Copy Share Image
...the pepper is beginning to show signs of strain, and tonight should grace a salad. It has been suggested that I am… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject. — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
Always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer. — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
Thirty-six satisfactory exposures on a roll means a photographer is not trying anything new — Freeman Patterson Copy Share Image
By default, I am a travel photographer. I work on a combination of commissions and personal projects that take me around the… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Photography and photographers have an inevitable development. They progress more or less by steps. Every five or ten years some new point… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Anyone who looks for life can find it... and they don't need to photograph ashcans. The average camera fan reminds me of… — Weegee Copy Share Image
I had no real photography experience, thankfully. I consciously took a lot of crowd shots. I was influenced by Seattle photographer Charles… — Bruce Pavitt Copy Share Image
A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer,… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
It would have been possible to structure my photographs in such a way that no indicators of the present were discernible. However,… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
If the quality of professional materials continues to erode or even dries up, then many of us silver photographers would have to… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second — comics, picnic tables, men’s trousers,… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I am not interested in repetition. I don't want to reach the point from where I wouldn't know how to go further.… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
It is light that reveals, light that obscures, light that communicates. It is light I "listen" to. The light late in the… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
See, I think our whole society is much too problem-solving oriented. It is far more interesting to participate in 'problem creation'... You… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
The best photographers are super nice people and that its not a coincidence. Great photographers genuinely like people, and people can feel… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
The state of mind of the photographer creating is a blank. I might add that this condition exists only at special times,… — Minor White Copy Share Image
I don't think you can create luck. You're either lucky or you're not. I don't know if it's really luck or if… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education… — Aaron Scharf Copy Share Image
Any photographer worth his/her salt - that is, any photographer of professional caliber, in control of the craft, regardless of imagistic bent… — A. D. Coleman Copy Share Image
The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain. — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
The camera is cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it! — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
