Photographer Quotes · Page 35

I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

— Annie Parisse

One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.

— Mary Ellen Mark

The whole world is there for you. Gifts will happen, but only if you are patient with life itself, the shooting process,…

— Jay Maisel

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as…

— Garry Winogrand

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

— Sam Abell

In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis.

— Minor White

We [photographers] have the tools and the power to create images - we should try to make them as truthful as possible.

— Petra Collins

I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer…

— Josef Koudelka

If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this: See the subject first. Do…

— Bill Brandt

Every photograph that is made whether by one who considers himself a professional, or by the tourist who points his snapshot camera…

— Eliot Porter

The physical thing of having a man following you around all day trying to take your photograph - it's eerie. There is…

— Chris Martin

The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole…

— John Sexton

I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the…

— Patti Smith

There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the…

— Ernst Haas

I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I…

— Cat Power

I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust…

— Ansel Adams

After all these years of wandering around as a street photographer and a journalist, I decided that this world is such a…

— Burk Uzzle

There is an interesting and new way to be excited about the fashion world today maybe. The traditional path of fashion as…

— Guinevere Van Seenus

Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s…

— Duane Michals

Somehow I felt that if Fox Talbot had had more time and more drawing talent, he would have filled in the interval…

— John Pfahl

I don't think it's necessary to put your feelings about photography in words. I've read things that photographers have written for exhibitions…

— Eliot Porter

Many oriental cultures make a distinction between two ways of looking - 'hard eyes' and 'soft eyes'. When we look with hard…

— John Paul Caponigro

No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad…

— Joe McNally

What I find difficult about photo shoots is the line between playing a character - you're being asked by the photographer to…

— Emma Watson

The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest—yes.…

— W. Eugene Smith

I don't want a gang of shouting, arguing, law-breaking photographers to camp out everywhere we are, all day every day, to continue…

— Jennifer Garner

I love feeling that I am opening new worlds for people who don't have time to investigate these things themselves.

— Joyce Tenneson

You must not think of yourself as looking at the stage from the audience. You must think of it as theatre in…

— Jay Maisel

I'm always looking for perfection. Every photographer, in one way or another, if he's serious, is. He ain't ever going to get…

— Phil Stern

“Even the most amazingly talented photographer could not have been able to catch splendid photos without the amazing talent of nature which…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have to focus on what you are doing, not just as a photographer, but as a human being.

— Anders Petersen

I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me.

— Joyce Tenneson

I had a neighbour who was a photographer, and he'd always say, 'I am going to shoot you' and I would always…

— Nidhhi Agerwal

I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.

— Harry Callahan

I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons.

— Nikolay Semyonov

Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.

— Diane Arbus

Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be…

— Dennis Lehane

We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing?

— John Paul Caponigro

I was to be a photographer and that was that. It did everything for me. I love people. I needed the camera…

— Lotte Jacobi