Photographer Quotes · Page 11

The mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us.

— Harry Callahan

I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.

— Sebastiao Salgado

I have two pairs of eyes – one to paint and one to take photographs.

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.

— Annie Leibovitz

You don't study photography, you just do it.

— Elliott Erwitt

Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing...

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.

— Norman Parkinson

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

— Francis Ford Coppola

The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

It's important to realize that the images are everywhere, not just where you want or expect them to be.

— Jay Maisel

I’m so worried that I’m going to perfect [my] technique someday. I have to say its unfortunate how many of my pictures…

— Sally Mann

The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind…

— Alber Elbaz

I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things…

— Walker Evans

My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front,…

— Sam Abell

Perhaps most intriguing of all is that it is possible to photograph what is impossible for the human eye to see -…

— Michael Kenna

I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took…

— Sam Abell

One of the things my career as an artist might say to young artists is: The things that are close to you…

— Sally Mann

There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things…

— Garry Winogrand

I'd like to briefly state the accomplishment that we expect from a photographer. He must make the person being photographed forget that…

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired…

— Jacqueline Bisset

Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it…

— Bill Brandt

If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then I must say, there is only one…

— Peter Lindbergh

I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the…

— Jerry Uelsmann

I must admit that I am not a member of the ugly school. I have a great regard for certain notions of…

— Saul Leiter

I’ve said about a million times that the best thing a young photographer can do is to stay close to home. Start…

— Annie Leibovitz

I certainly don't mean to suggest that all investigative journalism prior to 9/11 in the US was praiseworthy. But there were more…

— Judith Butler

The only times we are consciously aware of the authorship of a photograph, I would argue, are when we contemplate the photographs…

— William Boyd

One of the major changes in attitude that occurred in the world of art as we moved from the nineteenth into the…

— Jerry Uelsmann

Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical…

— Edward Steichen

[Women photographers] provide an inspiring reminder to all women that the choice to see, or be seen, is ours. We live in…

— Diane Keaton

What I want is the world to remember the problems and the people I photograph. What I want is to create a…

— Sebastiao Salgado

On the same Australian trip, I brought back a pair [of Ugg] for my then boyfriend who was a photographer. He wore…

— Alexa Chung

Like most photographers, I try to capture a moment in my work.

— Julian Lennon

Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.

— Garry Winogrand

I never thought I would become a photographer.

— Rene Burri

In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation.

— Frederick Sommer

If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning

— Ruth Bernhard

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.

— Jock Sturges

Surfaces simultaneously reveal and conceal.

— John Paul Caponigro

Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.

— Roland Barthes