Photographer Quotes · Page 15

“Photography is basically an art of arranging the angles!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Why do photographers photograph? To make unreality visible.

— Bill Jay

If a picture is worth a thousand words, photographers are worth a million.

— Tupac Shakur

Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists.

— Arnold Newman

If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.

— Linda McCartney

I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself...

— Edward Steichen

Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.

— Bruno Barbey

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels.

— Ansel Adams

My friend, why should you wish to shorten my life by taking from me my shadow? (To photographer Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy.)

— Crazy Horse

Think like a photographer. Look at every vignette in your home like it's being shot for a shelter magazine and style accordingly.

— Jonathan Adler

I am always on the go; being a photographer, filmmaker, author and a father, things become stressful, and it is important to…

— Nigel Barker

Before you shoot an irresistible subject, mute all your senses except sight to find out how much is left for the camera…

— Andreas Feininger

I didn't think of what I was doing as political. To me it was a way to make the best out of…

— Cindy Sherman

It takes asking many questions from many perspectives to truly understand something.

— John Paul Caponigro

We should think of a photographer as a Samurai who makes rituals, moves and gestures in order to develop his techniques and…

— Alex Majoli

The world was waiting to be full of discovery made(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned.you would…

— Margaret Bourke-White

Even though the industry is very big and there's lots of money, when it gets down to it, whether it's a photographer…

— Guido Palau

Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid mental images of scenes I cared for and failed to photograph. It is…

— Sam Abell

I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it's got lots of accounting going…

— Joel Meyerowitz

With a painting, you're taking basic building blocks and making something that's more complex than what you started with. It is a…

— Stephen Shore

The [concentration camps] were swarming with photographers and every new picture of horror served only to diminish the total effect. Now, for…

— Robert Capa

...everything around us, dead or alive, in the eyes of a crazy photographer mysteriously takes on many variations, so that a seemingly…

— Josef Sudek

To be a photographer is to become aware of visible appearances and at the same time acquire from them an education in…

— Raoul Hausmann

I think of my work as very polarizing; either people really do like it and are touched by it or they really…

— Joyce Tenneson

I think self-portraits are very difficult. I’ve always seen mine as straightforward, very stripped down, hair pulled back. No shirt. Whatever light…

— Annie Leibovitz

I think we, as a fasion industry, need to hold people accountable for their actions. I want people to realize that models…

— Sara Sampaio

I was photographing the photographer Brassaï. He had very prominent eyes, like a frog's. As I focused my lens, he brought his…

— John Loengard

The decisive moment, the popular Henri Cartier-Bresson approach to photography in which a scene is stopped and depicted at a certain point…

— Fred Ritchin

My photographs are proof of what happened. When I go to Russia, sometimes I meet ex-soldiers... They say, 'We came to liberate…

— Josef Koudelka

Anthropology... has always been highly dependent upon photography... As the use of still photography - and moving pictures - has become increasingly…

— Margaret Mead

Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I…

— Yousuf Karsh

I chose to be a photographer twenty-two years ago, but I don't know that I'd make that choice again. Back in the…

— Eugene Richards

I'm not a good photographer. I just capture the highlights of our rotten world.

— Ritu Ghatourey

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

— Gordon Parks

I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict,

— Giles Duley

You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.

— Eve Arnold

My ideas are not developed before I actually do the pieces.

— Cindy Sherman

I was making photographs of the world long before I was a photographer.

— Marcey Jacobson

I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings.

— John Pfahl

How do we know what we know? Is seeing believing? Is believing seeing?

— John Paul Caponigro