Photographer Quotes · Page 13

You have to let the past successes go, or you'll never be able to see anew.

— Jay Maisel

Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese.

— Bill Jay

If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy.

— Jay Maisel

Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.

— John Paul Caponigro

Find the one thing you’re good at and FOCUS on it.

— Joyce Tenneson

Several people feel I have photographed God. May be.

— Alfred Stieglitz

Photographers, like kids, should be seen and not heard.

— Bill Jay

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

— Lauren Greenfield

There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.

— Janet Malcolm

Every photograph is the photographer's opinion about something. It's how they feel about something: what they think is horrible, tragic, funny.

— Mary Ellen Mark

My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.

— Alexander McQueen

It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.

— Ryan McGinley

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

— Garry Winogrand

I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over…

— Annie Leibovitz

The more light you have in an image, the less drama you get. The details start taking over; the mystery is all…

— Jay Maisel

I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.

— Ree Drummond

I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for…

— Robert Frank

I don't care about fashion at all. And I know it's kind of a dodgy thing to be a fashion photographer, a…

— Jurgen Teller

Photography, of course, is the perfect medium for the investigation. It can reveal the truth of present day specifics and particularities, while…

— John Pfahl

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can…

— David Bailey

The act of photography is like going on a hunt in which photographer and camera merge into one indivisible function. This is…

— Vilem Flusser

I really try to divorce myself from any thought of possible use of this stuff. That's part of the discipline. My only…

— Garry Winogrand

It's unarguable to say that every one of us has been moved by the beauty of what I have called snapshots, but…

— Tod Papageorge

Up to and including the moment of exposure, the photographer is working in an undeniably subjective way. By his choice of technical…

— W. Eugene Smith

A lot of the challenge and the reason for the success of those one-shot photographers is that their pictures almost have to…

— Gregory Heisler

I’m no part time dilettante photographer, unlike the bartenders, shoe salesmen, floorwalkers plumbers, barbers, grocery clerks and chiropractors whose great hobby is…

— Weegee

... I just feel impotent - I don't know which way to start or turn. You know what they say about a…

— Tina Modotti

I left film because I felt that photography was my art. It was something I could do on my own, whereas film…

— Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

The principal thing is the question of how our culture views age: that old is ugly. Take a photographer like Mapplethorpe. Every…

— John Coplans

As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to…

— Wynn Bullock

There are a lot of ways to talk about the life of a photograph. You can talk about the afterlife of a…

— Sam Abell

I was so lucky that I got to meet certain people. It came through Roddy McDowall, who had become a photographer and…

— Winona Ryder

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

— John Szarkowski

The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.

— Robert Adams

To me, pictures are like blintzes - ya gotta get 'em while they're hot.

— Weegee

When you're a fashion photographer, you must inspire a dream,

— Patrick Demarchelier

I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can

— John Sexton

When I left art college, I was a still photographer for a year.

— Roger Deakins

It is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing.

— Jerry Uelsmann

Don't park... Arrival is the death of inspiration.

— Ernst Haas