There's nothing wrong with being a fashion photographer, but it's a bit limited. — David Bailey Copy Share Image
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face. — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are. — Ellen von Unwerth Copy Share Image
Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing? — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
I was to be a photographer and that was that. It did everything for me. I love people. I needed the camera… — Lotte Jacobi Copy Share Image
When a photographer or a person sees your beauty, your inner beauty, it makes you feel special like, "Wow, someone saw that… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You have to focus on what you are doing, not just as a photographer, but as a human being. — Anders Petersen Copy Share Image
I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me. — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
You become things, you become an atmosphere, and if you become it, which means you incorporate it within you, you can also… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times.… — Brassai Copy Share Image
It's disgusting. Why would people idolize someone who doesn’t do anything and saying you're a model/photographer with a digital camera and photoshop… — Ryan Ross Copy Share Image
I work rather blindly. I have a theory that seems to work with me that some of the best things you ever… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
The Chinese have a theory that you pass through boredom into fascination and I think it's true. I would never choose a… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
I hate it when people say, I'm an artist. I think, well, I'll be the judge of that. And I don't think… — John Waters 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
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
Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I… — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Most photographers go and photograph something that they see, that exists, and that somebody else has created - they document it. But… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time. — Andre Kertesz Copy Share Image
“A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The subject isn't always a help to the photographer, it's like handcuffs. — Raymond Depardon Copy Share Image
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