Photographer Quotes · Page 42

Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to…

— Eliot Porter

In conclusion, the idea of direction on the part of the photographer has its greatest value when its processes are least discernible…

— Arthur Rothstein

Designers and photographers still want to work with me and I'm grateful for that. I don't know how long I'll carry on…

— Linda Evangelista

One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I gravitate towards places where humans have been and are no more, to the edge of man's influence, where the elements are…

— Michael Kenna

Fall in love. Every day. With everything. With life. If you can fall in love, you can be a photographer. I think…

— Ruth Bernhard

It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.

— Dorothea Lange

The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.

— Helmut Newton

What you see is real - but only on the particular level to which you've developed your sense of seeing. You can…

— Wynn Bullock

All dancers are, by and large, a photographer's dream. They communicate with their bodies and they are trained to be completely responsive…

— Annie Leibovitz

Because powerful images are fixed in the mind more readily than words, the photographer needs no interpreter. A photograph means the same…

— Arthur Rothstein

As a matter of fact, nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following…

— Alfred Stieglitz

I have asked students at the beginning of their careers, what things of that sort might haunt them – what things they…

— Robert Adams

It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream,…

— James Agee

One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension…

— Carl Mydans

Because of reality television and all these celebrities thinking they can be designers, everyone imagines that they can just become a designer,…

— Anna Wintour

Photographers undervalue the use of the wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography.

— Ralph Steiner

I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories.

— Josef Koudelka

The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)

— Alphonse de Lamartine

If I could find them (assemblages) in nature I would photograph them. I make them because through photography I have a knowledge…

— Frederick Sommer

I can't talk about my style. It us kind of difficult for me. I don't like styles. I only like taking photos…

— Andre Kertesz

Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer.

— Andreas Feininger

Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.

— Marc Riboud

The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough?

— Garry Winogrand

I love photography. Photographers and photos. I took a ton of pictures in Paris, and I find that I'm most inspired by…

— Abigail Spencer

I was photographing every meal I ate, every person I met, every waiter or waitress who served me, every bed I slept…

— Stephen Shore

Predators and prey always coexist. That's why we have galleries as well as photographers.

— Bill Jay

One of the photographers was like, "Can you stop talking and try to look sexy for a minute?"

— Tracee Ellis Ross

You will, in time, see and show others not just the superficial, but the details, the meanings, and the implications of all…

— Jay Maisel

I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography.

— Joan Fontcuberta

Many people when I started didn't believe I was a good fashion photographer, and probably they still think that.

— Mario Testino

Human vision is untrustworthy, subjective and selective. Camera vision is total and non - objective.

— Andreas Feininger

My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.

— Nick Park

I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.

— Alec Soth

A creative photographer is one who either captures mystery or reveals things, everything else is useless

— Raghu Rai

I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years.

— Graham Nash

A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you're not feeling very sexy.

— Cindy Margolis

“Time is the sole photographer of all the times, from the Big Bang till the possible Big Crunch!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life.

— Wynn Bullock

I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.

— Graciela Iturbide