This is how you can tell a real photographer: mostly, a real photographer does not say 'I wish I had my camera… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A photographer needs to be a good editor of negatives and prints! In fact, most of the prints I make are for… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
I dressed all in black and went to see all the top photographers, like Irving Penn, and said, 'I am Veruschka who… — Veruschka von Lehndorff Copy Share Image
'Color' is quite different from 'colors.' In an image with many colors, we find that all the colors compete with each other… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I wasn't really that good at being a musician. And then I tried being a standup. I was an actor. I was… — Garry Marshall Copy Share Image
It was only with the emergence of the Conceptualist approaches of the late 1960s that the opposition between artists using photography and… — Jean-Francois Chevrier Copy Share Image
I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
I go back and forth, but I never wanted to be the photographer of the gay and lesbian community. I will wave… — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
Fantasy isn't something I put into the pictures; I don't try and inject them with a sense of play. But it's about… — Tim Walker Copy Share Image
“Where they are setting up the market, it used to be a place for torture,” Julien remarked, indicating the place in front… — Mandy Baggot Copy Share Image
You've got to struggle against the pollution of intelligence in order to become an animal with very sharp instincts - a sort… — Robert Doisneau Copy Share Image
I had no real photography experience, thankfully. I consciously took a lot of crowd shots. I was influenced by Seattle photographer Charles… — Bruce Pavitt Copy Share Image
Anyone who looks for life can find it... and they don't need to photograph ashcans. The average camera fan reminds me of… — Weegee Copy Share Image
It would have been possible to structure my photographs in such a way that no indicators of the present were discernible. However,… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer,… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
A girl must have an indefinable magic, real character, a strong sense of self. Her role is to respond to the brief… — Erin O'Connor Copy Share Image
Photography and photographers have an inevitable development. They progress more or less by steps. Every five or ten years some new point… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I am not interested in repetition. I don't want to reach the point from where I wouldn't know how to go further.… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
A fashion photographer is nothing without clothes and hair and makeup. And when I speak to other photographers, a lot of them… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I think if you're a creative person, then you're always kinda looking to move things along - 'Where else can I go?… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
If the quality of professional materials continues to erode or even dries up, then many of us silver photographers would have to… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second — comics, picnic tables, men’s trousers,… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
The photographer who attempts to fit happily into the world by using the traditional perspective of the camera will end up falling… — Daido Moriyama Copy Share Image
When you put an individual on the cover of a big picture magazine, like 'Life of Look', their career skyrocketed. As a… — Douglas Kirkland Copy Share Image
I often wondered why I was attracted to certain landscapes and not others and why my photographs (and depictions by other artists)… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child.… — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
Photographers find themselves directly in competition with mass media's misrepresentations of women. So the photographic terrain is particularly contested from a political… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can… — Minor White Copy Share Image
There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity, and when you're photographing children there's often an abundance of it. I would have an… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
I don't want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Detachment, lack of sentimentality, originality, a lot of things that sound rather empty. I know what they mean. Let's say, "visual impact"… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
In previous ages the word 'art' was used to cover all forms of human skill. The Greeks believed that these skills were… — David Hurn Copy Share Image
However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
There is enormous need for professionals who know how to tell stories with narrative punch and nuance, who can work proactively and… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
[Photography] can be tiny, on your phone, or it can be a billboard, or a film-sized projection, or printed in a magazine.… — Christian Marclay Copy Share Image
![“[Photography] can be tiny, on your phone, or it can be a billboard, or a film-sized projection, or printed in a magazine. I don't think we've been in a time before when so much photography is available in so many formats, when everybody is a photographer.” quote by Christian Marclay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c43/christian-marclay-23269_available_photography-can-be-tiny-on-your-phone-or_479114.jpg)
