Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead! — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed. — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
A photographer kept shooting me every time I swung. I was very flattered until I found out he was from Field and… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
I am someone who takes pleasure in exploring the full scale of the medium photography. I am a photographer. — Juergen Teller Copy Share Image
The runner stopped dead, lost his balance, froze in one of those violent attitudes in which the photographers petrify living reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
No one can do inspired work without genuine interest in his subject and understanding of its characteristics. — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
I fell in love with the darkroom, and that was part of being a photographer at the time. The darkroom was unbelievably… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I was studying to be a dental hygienist and working as a dental assistant. I met a photographer and decided to put… — Nikki Ziering Copy Share Image
Photographers are always voyeuristic, and they do sort of live vicariously. I think every artist does. — Patricia Bosworth Copy Share Image
If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms... He pursues them into their last refuges… — Brassai Copy Share Image
If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
I think that it's workshops, honestly, that have kept me keen about photography, and about my photography. My career as a workshop… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Sometimes as you work, you find that you are learning things about your own perceptions and motivations that are way below you… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
...insight, vision, moments of revelation. During those rare moments something overtakes the man and he becomes the tool of a greater Force;… — Minor White Copy Share Image
A photographer who wants to see…must recognize the value of the familiar. Your ability to see is not increased by the distance… — Freeman Patterson Copy Share Image
At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights, and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and… — Nancy Newhall Copy Share Image
“The photographer was installed in the back of an inconspicurous dry-goods store in the poorer neighbourhood of Warsaw. He seemed to know… — Jan Karski Copy Share Image
Photographers tend not to photograph what they can’t see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we’re… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
They [photographs] teach you about your own unraveling past, or about the immediacy of yesterday. They show you what you look at.… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
When I first asked to take pictures of women at their homes, I was using my formal camera and I struggled to… — Olivia Arthur Copy Share Image
Everybody can take a good picture. Everybody is interesting. Everyone has an interesting face. Some people are more difficult or more nervous… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
The word beauty is unavoidable … it accounts for my decision to photograph … There appeared a quality, beauty seemed the only… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby. — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
I try to take what voice I have and I give it to those who don’t have one at all. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
![“They [photographs] teach you about your own unraveling past, or about the immediacy of yesterday. They show you what you look at. If you take a photograph, you've been responsive to something, and you looked hard at it. Hard for a thousandth of a second, hard for ten minutes. But hard…” quote by Joel Meyerowitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/006/joel-meyerowitz-24422_bites_they-photographs-teach-you-about-your-ow_541130.jpg)
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