I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life. — Robert Capa Copy Share Image
True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
In my 20 years as a photographer, covering conflicts from Bosnia to Gaza to Iraq to Afghanistan, injured civilians and soldiers have… — Anja Niedringhaus Copy Share Image
I'm aware of how lucky I am. Being able to make pretty good money, and get to do a lot of fun… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
It is the photographer's decision at the two levels of seeing the picture - when it is shot and when it is… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
I've learned over the years that when you get a clue to another possibility to follow it through. — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a… — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot of painters and photographers and had a very… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
When a photographer chooses a subject, he or she is making a claim on the interest and attention of future viewers, a… — Frank Gohlke Copy Share Image
I've worked with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years, and we have this magnificent photographer, Tad Motoyama. He takes these wonderful,… — Betty White Copy Share Image
I've always been obsessed with penetrating the female psyche. When I shoot, I'm like a tornado. I never sit down, never take… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
I discovered that this camera was the technical means in photography of communicating what the world looks like in a state of… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I work in the same style as classic landscape photographers. You find the right perspective, and then you wait until the light… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
As the photographer, it's challenging to make images that read quickly and are powerful, but have enough humanity and compassion. I've worked… — Stephanie Sinclair Copy Share Image
What is the art experience about? Really, I'm not interested in making Art at all. I never, ever, think about it. To… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
There's something arbitrary about taking a picture. So I can stand at the edge of a highway and take one step forward… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I started out, in the mid-'70s, taking photographs of rock bands that I liked but not because I really wanted to photograph… — Derek Ridgers Copy Share Image
I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Give half a dozen men the same camera, lenses and plates, and send them to the same place to do the same… — Frederick H. Evans Copy Share Image
I thought about how to film something, how to take pictures of it and how to mix it all together. And I… — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
Photographs are never records of the way things are; they're records of the way things were. — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street,… — Minor White Copy Share Image
You have to learn not only from your failures. You must also learn from your successes. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
I never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is… — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have. — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to… — Tim Walker Copy Share Image
In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
My responsibility as a photographer, to my subjects, is to know what's going to happen with my images. — Erin Siegal McIntyre Copy Share Image