A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I don't pretend to be an intellectual or a philosopher. I just look. — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
People, photographers, people in the press can sometimes be inappropriate. — Tobey Maguire Copy Share Image
“You can capture me with your beauty, only if you are a brilliant photographer.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Can you keep your balance? Can you see what and where you are at any given moment? — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
“To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.” — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own. — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history. — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult, but after that things get better. — Robert Doisneau Copy Share Image
It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
Main thing is just to remember that hard work got me here and only hard work will keep me here. — Brandon Stanton Copy Share Image
A number of years ago, I found a book of photography by Weegee; he was a crime photographer in the 1930s in… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
The word “photography” can be interpreted as “writing with light” or “drawing with light.” Some photographers are producing beautiful photographs by drawing… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
Having exhausted every possibility at the moment when he was coming full circle, Antonino realised that photographing photographs was the only course… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
You’ve gotta taste the light, like my friend and fellow shooter Chip Maury says. And when you see light like this, trust… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for… — Minor White Copy Share Image
...a photographer must be aware of and concerned about the words that accompany a picture. These words should be considered as carefully… — Arthur Rothstein Copy Share Image
The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors,… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
There's never a time that I'm not intrusive. That's the base of what we - photographers - do: we're intrusive. Anyone saying… — Eugene Richards Copy Share Image
A girl's career today doesn't have the same kind of life span, whereas it used to be a collaboration and a partnership… — Michael Flutie Copy Share Image
In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
It's possible to think of photography as an act of editing, a matter of where you put your rectangle pull it out… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Photography must seize upon this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it. The photographers eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
It's a little bit like talking about the life of writing. The life of writing may be about many things, but it… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
'Ornithologists concluded that migratory birds take hundreds of naps as they fly; they also practice unilateral eye closure, in which one eye… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
One night I was on my [Navy] ship... on my first cruise crossing the North Atlantic in a horrible storm, chained to… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection. — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment. — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button. — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
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