Photographer Quotes · Page 40

If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.

— Edward Weston

The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the…

— Jay Maisel

We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers.

— Charlotte Cotton

I'm a head-shot photographer. I have people come to my apartment, and I take their head shots.

— Colman Domingo

If I'd had the nerve, I'd have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn't, I became a photographer.

— Man Ray

I've always believed a great photographer should concentrate more on depth of feeling and less on depth of field.

— Max Dupain

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing…

— Helmut Newton

A photographer doesn't always make a perfect frame, but he knows when and how to make one. And this is what actually…

— Nishan Panwar

Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you…

— Anonymous

We pass the billboard and I console myself in two ways. First, I know that most photographs taken are a gamble at…

— Laura McPhee

Philip Jones Griffith documented the Vietnam War, and through his images that were published in Time Life Magazine, it showed me the…

— Jamel Shabazz

The process must be concealed from - non-existent for - the photographer, who by definition need think of the art in the…

— Edwin Land

Making children cry for a photographer can be considered mean. But I would say that making children laugh and show off their…

— Jill Greenberg

Color really doesn't have interaction if it's full of colors. It's the interaction or relationship among or between colors that makes a…

— Jay Maisel

I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of…

— Paul Strand

I can work with shyness, but for the most part I want people to feel comfortable with me. It's really more about…

— Ryan McGinley

In college, unable to be "special" - or in demand - as a girl, I made myself useful, even essential, in my…

— Cris Mazza

My ideal is to achieve the ability to produce numberless prints from each negative, prints all significantly alive, yet indistinguishably alike, and…

— Alfred Stieglitz

I want to get a real sense of intimate connection with each of the animals - with that particular lion or elephant…

— Nick Brandt

We all experience it. Those moments when we gasp and say, Oh, look at that. Maybe it's nothing more than the way…

— Joel Meyerowitz

In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where…

— Michael Kenna

The only way to understand something is to be confronted by something that is difficult to understand.

— Frederick Sommer

In England, I'm already labeled a rock photographer, which is a little insulting, because I'm not a rock photographer at all.

— Anton Corbijn

If you can imagine photography in the guise of a woman and you’d ask her what she thought of Stieglitz, she’d say:…

— Alfred Stieglitz

Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going…

— Joel Meyerowitz

We don't have only two eyes; we have hundreds of wonderful eyes, because there are hundreds of wonderful photographers!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.

— Ansel Adams

Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times?

— David Byrne

I was a Valley girl; I hung out, and through a photographer friend. I met Peter Douglas, who was one of Kirk…

— Theresa Russell

Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer.

— Berenice Abbott

Teachers don't work in the summer, and photographers don't shoot in in the middle of the day.

— John Loengard

All the good pictures that came so easily now make the next set of pictures virtually impossible in your mind.

— Sally Mann

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given.

— Eve Arnold

I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone.

— Saoirse Ronan

[The] arresting of time is photography's unique capacity, and the decision of when to click the shutter is the photographer's chief responsibility.

— Janet Malcolm

It's not just when you shoot, or what you shot, or where you shoot, it's the combination of the three.

— Jay Maisel

When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.

— Patrick Demarchelier

I fell in love with traveling and thought being a photographer would be an interesting way to travel and make a living.

— Peter Menzel

My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to…

— W. Eugene Smith

The immortal photographers will be straightforward photographers, those who do not rely on tricks or special techniques.

— Philippe Halsman