The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
“It isn't the camera that takes great shots, it is the photographer, don't forget this. I” — Eric Dahlin Copy Share Image
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye. — Minor White Copy Share Image
I love storytelling, I love being a visual person, and it just made perfect sense to be an underwater photographer and explore… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture. — Lisette Model Copy Share Image
I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant… — Sally Schneider Copy Share Image
They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take… — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
I know my idea of beauty isn't what most people's is, and the fact that I'm getting the opportunity to show my… — Kelly Osbourne Copy Share Image
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
The majority of photographers still seek artistic effects, imitating other mediums of graphic expression. The result is a hybrid product that does… — Tina Modotti Copy Share Image
Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
...I always feel it's necessary to look at my images from two distances. Here is my criterion: If I can look at… — Bruce Barnbaum Copy Share Image
If I knew what the picture was going to be like I wouldn’t make it. It was almost like it was made… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I find that when one has worked long enough, technical know-how becomes almost irrelevant. In photography, it's not difficult to reach a… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
If you are engaging rationality, you are already engaging a place that makes you unavailable. Only when I recognize that inspiration has… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
The difference between an amateur and a professional photographer is that the amateur thinks the camera does the work. And they treat… — David Hemmings Copy Share Image
The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print.… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Sven Schumann did an interview with photographer Wolfgang Tillmans in Berlin addressing the question: What is photography today when everyone is a… — Olivier Zahm Copy Share Image
It is the purpose of life that each of us strives to become actually what he or she is potentially. Each photographer,… — David Hurn Copy Share Image
Incidentally, part of a photographer’s gift should be with people. You can do some wonderful work if you know how to make… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands before our camera, to honor what is greater and… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
If you look very intensely and slowly things will happen that you never dreamed of before. — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself - a matter of identity. — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself. — Graeme Le Saux Copy Share Image
I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past. — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
“Walking the streets with camera in hand is akin to being on a treasure hunt as a child.” — Christopher Paul Flateau Copy Share Image
Never ever say the word shoot when you are taking a picture with a camera because a camera is not a violent… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
“Judging by the photograph it seemed like I hadn’t been there at all. As if it was my camera that had been… — Ida Løkås Copy Share Image
The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside… — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances...a tiny relationship - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture. — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
“Life is a photo album. Loaded with some black and white memories, some colorful dreams, some abstract expressionism and some out of… — Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer Copy Share Image
I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be… — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
