Photographer Quotes · Page 39

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and…

— George Eastman

I guess I'm adaptable. You know, I turn up at work and [photographers] can kind of do what they want with me,…

— Kate Moss

Keep alive the fact that a mystery has come into existence and that a physical being serves as a house for this…

— Paul Caponigro

I'm the world's most famous photographer, most sought after photographer, most awarded photographer.

— Peter Lik

I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.

— Harry Callahan

I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just…

— Elliott Erwitt

Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent.

— Ray Metzker

I didn't see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest…

— John Baldessari

Democrats are fighting for people to be able to quit work while the rest of us pay for their health care while…

— Rush Limbaugh

It must be confessed that it takes considerable skill to produce the best kind of lies. It is in the hands of…

— Henry Peach Robinson

We are entering into an age in which visual language is defined by a dialogue between photographers and audiences. This means not…

— Gilles Peress

There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy,…

— Ernst Haas

But I did not always know just what it was I wanted to photograph. I believe it is important for a photographer…

— Bill Brandt

I think there are two types of photographers, those who want to document the world and those who want to create their…

— Moby

“If the photographer isn't going to pay attention to the picture he is making, that if he thinks the camera is just…

— Whitney Otto

I want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I've never…

— William Eggleston

You know you are seeing such a photograph if you say to yourself, "I could have taken that picture. I've seen such…

— Sam Abell

With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be…

— Walker Evans

If you want to write you should learn the alphabet. You write and write and in the end you hava a beautiful,…

— Andre Kertesz

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

And one has to remember that no photography can pretend to show the truth. A picture only shows a given situation under…

— Antoine D'Agata

When you work fast, what you put in your pictures is what your brought with yoiu - your own ideas and concepts.…

— Sebastiao Salgado

For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image…

— Ruth Bernhard

...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes…

— Bill Jay

Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Many photographers are consumed with the idea of making beautiful contact sheets. I am far more interested in making the best final…

— John Sexton

Believe in yourself. Listen to the photographers you work with, and try to be professional at all time.

— Alessandra Ambrosio

Many photographers live in a dream world of beautiful backgrounds. It wouldn’t hurt them to get a taste of reality to wake…

— Weegee

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.

— William Eggleston

We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.

— Ernst Haas

Words of wisdom for every photographer: 'Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking'. So said Goethe.

— Bill Jay

If I already have a vision, my work is almost done. The rest is a technical problem.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

I've had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or for film posters.

— Keira Knightley

When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

— Marina Warner

I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.

— Edward Weston

If I am dissatisfied, it's simply because good photos are few and far between. A good photo is a miracle.

— Josef Koudelka

No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a…

— Bill Brandt

I print giclees for artists and photographers for a livelihood. My original idea was to somehow combine the two.

— Donald Lambert

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to…

— Edward Weston

All photography is Pop, and all photographers are crazy... they feel guilty since they don't have to do very much - just…

— Andy Warhol