Photographer Quotes · Page 41

We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for…

— Minor White

Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those…

— John Paul Caponigro

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

— Berenice Abbott

My advice is: learn from the best or teach yourself. And do not bother at all if you do not have an…

— David Hurn

The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things.

— Frederick Sommer

It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.

— Diane Arbus

A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work.

— Gregory Heisler

Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.

— Robert Adams

People were murdered for the camera; and some photographers and a television camera crew departed without taking a picture in the hope…

— Harold Evans

One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch…

— Stanley Cavell

There were just moments of the punk scene and I realized that I had to capture it. There was also this photographer…

— Jeff Vespa

At 42, I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this,…

— Wynn Bullock

As a photographer, I don't really have a view of the world in general. Someone taking pictures for 'National Geographic' might. Each…

— Gerard Malanga

[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the…

— Ernest Hemingway

I very strongly believe that if you go back to your roots, if you mine that inner territory, you can bring out…

— Joyce Tenneson

André Kertész has two qualities that are essential for a great photographer: an insatiable curiosity about the world, about people, and about…

— Brassai

Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked…

— Susan Sontag

A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder…

— Robert Doisneau

I met a photographer who agreed to give me a few lessons; in exchange, I had to pose naked for him.

— Sophie Calle

Every fashion photographer is completely different; the fact that they are so different is what makes it fun. You don't want to…

— Lara Stone

I get photographers hiding in my bushes. We're way past autographs. We're into being stalked and followed.

— Jennifer Lawrence

My mother had taken me to photographer Paul Hesse, who used some of my pictures on magazine covers.

— Margaret O'Brien

As Estelle Jussim wrote, it is almost impossible for a single photograph to state both the problem and the solution.

— John Pfahl

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost…

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Think clearly, act sensibly, commit yourself to caring and work hard in order to discover joy. Then give the images back to…

— Bill Jay

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen…

— Irving Penn

Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content.

— Jay Maisel

When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad... but it's hard trying to breathe in…

— Gary Lineker

Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's…

— Patti Smith

I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new…

— Edward Weston

I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.

— Elliott Erwitt

Some photographers shoot hundreds of pictures in a row and you need to be able to move from pose to pose very…

— Jamie Eason

I'm not a photographer, so I need all the help I can get when it comes to make a picture look cool.

— Hunter Hayes

It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera

— Sebastiao Salgado

The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a…

— Ansel Adams

I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'

— David LaChapelle

Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst.

— Margaret Mead

Photographers represented occasions once. You dressed for them as you might for church; they cost money, they recorded important moments.

— Michael Lesy

I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides…

— Natalie Coughlin

You have to assume that everything you do is public knowledge. Everything. Because now everyone is a reporter. Everyone is a photographer.

— Derek Jeter