Photographer Quotes · Page 32

Typically I see it with photographers who go to a place like India or Nepal, and everything's so colorful and exotic and…

— Sam Abell

Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.

— Ansel Adams

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people…

— Diane Arbus

Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.

— John Szarkowski

I didn't take inspiration from other photographers, which in a way helped to find my own images.

— Peter Lindbergh

I got a camera when I was nine years old and it wasn't until I was a model that I realized you…

— Nigel Barker

Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.

— Wynn Bullock

Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones.

— Robert Adams

Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal,…

— Jerry Saltz

For a feature in next month's issue of Prog magazine, the photographer spent many hours setting up a photo shoot of me…

— Kevin J. Anderson

I was always into the music. Music, in general, saved my life. But the fame part... I would look up, see what…

— Barry Manilow

You existed. You existed now as a fractal. Definition: A fractal is generally a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be…

— David Levithan

The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

Here's the beauty of a camera: you don't have to come up with words for what you're looking at... Maybe another angle…

— Barbara Abercrombie

I was an amateur - I am an amateur - and I intend to stay an amateur. To me an amateur photographer…

— Erwin Blumenfeld

The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation - not where the action is taking place, but where…

— Lawrence Schiller

Sometimes the most interesting visual phenomena occur when you least expect it. Other times, you think youre getting something amazing and the…

— Michael Kenna

For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career.…

— Andre Kertesz

I believe that every photographer, every artist, should choose materials and equipment based on their own vision. I don't believe that non-digital…

— Michael Kenna

Why do I have to do this?" Gator demanded. Cuz you're such a pretty boy. Our photographer isn't going to fall for…

— Christine Feehan

“In 1850, August Salzmann photographed, near Jerusalem, the road to Beith-Lehem (as it was spelled at the time): nothing but stony ground,…

— Roland Barthes

What's great is that the picture is already taken before it goes public. It's in secret. The trust that develops from such…

— Emmet Gowin

The advice I would give to any photographer - young, old or in-between - is to explore anything visual because this is,…

— Elliott Erwitt

I'd really rather leave it to others to say what they see in it and to see if I've put something into…

— Bruce Barnbaum

Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Why you like photography so much? Because it's just the camera and me showing everyone else what we can see. It's telling…

— Lindsey Kelk

A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.

— Brassai

A person cannot learn to be a photographer. He can only cultivate what he already has. I try to make people aware…

— Ruth Bernhard

... to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs.

— W. Eugene Smith

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

— Yousuf Karsh

As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish... This should make amateurs the happiest…

— Andreas Feininger

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.

— Cindy Sherman

A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe.

— Nobuyoshi Araki

I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them…

— Robert Mapplethorpe

Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world - good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which…

— Berenice Abbott

We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass…

— Margaret Bourke-White

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— magicpicture

For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers.

— Subcomandante Marcos

I don't go out looking for pictures. I go out, and if something catches my eye, that's reason enough to photograph it.

— Henry Wessel, Jr

My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.

— Dylan Lauren