Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Well, I'm not going to get into that. I think that those kind of distinctions and lists of titles like "street photographer"… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
My job is, I'm a photographer. I'm something of a filmmaker. And primarily, I'm an adventurer. My job is to help people… — Sebastian Copeland Copy Share Image
Who was the first photographer in the world? Who was the first woman photographer in the world? Who was the first man… — Brandon McCaw Copy Share Image
Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
What I feel is that the picture-taking process, anyway a greater part of it, is an intuitive thing. You can't go out… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
“My credo about my photography: We wander through the world, perceiving so much - and yet so little. My passion is to… — Frank Henrich Copy Share Image
Today, the smartphone in your pocket has a high-quality digital camera. Everyone - not just artists - is a photographer, and the… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
...one day I was speculating on how I would like to look back on life and I decided I wanted to feel… — David Hurn Copy Share Image
I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject… — David Hurn Copy Share Image
A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
What's happened is that the digital age has made photography more accessible to people. Everyone is a photographer. But to do it… — Bryan Adams Copy Share Image
I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The difference between a good picture and a mediocre picture is a question of millimeters - small, small differences - but it’s… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get… — Don McCullin Copy Share Image
You know, I must really work hard. I'm in the last stage of my artistic life. But I'm so busy that I… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
I can one day do dance, and the next maybe do a movie, and then maybe I can choreograph, or work with… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
When I first started to take photographs in Czechoslovakia, I met this old gentleman, this old photographer, who told me a few… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
I have always done the opposite of what I was trained to do... Having little technical background, I became a photographer. Adopting… — William Klein Copy Share Image
When assignments were over, photography continued. One of the primary reasons it did was that I wanted and needed to have fresh… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the… — Michael Bergin Copy Share Image
My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when… — Graeme Le Saux Copy Share Image
There's a rapport that any photographer is going to have with his subject matter. And if you don't have a rapport, you're… — Bruce Barnbaum Copy Share Image
When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium… — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
You know, my dad wasn't a photographer or filmmaker by profession, but on Sundays, he would take pictures of me and my… — Bruce Weber Copy Share Image
Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
“Being a photographer isn’t a choice but a discovery. One day, you awaken to the pull of light and shadow, the lens… — Craig Varjabedian Copy Share Image
It should be the aim of every photographer to make a single exposure that shows everything about the subject. I have been… — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
I like to think I keep my mind open. When I walk the streets I don't look for anything in particular. I… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license… — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
Men die, heroically or fruitlessly, but man carries on. In Israel it is the same: the farmer must till the fields, the… — Leonard Freed Copy Share Image
This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
We're responsible for everything that's included in the frame. We're also responsible for what's not included in the frame. We're responsible for… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Just as a fisherman cannot catch fish unless his line is in the water, a wildlife photographer cannot shoot great wildlife images… — George H. Harrison Copy Share Image
I have a really hard time stepping out of a limousine and confronting a sh*tload of photographers who are all screaming at… — Julia Ormond Copy Share Image
We make pictures. At the end of the day, we create something potentially significant that did not exist at the beginning of… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
Edward [Weston] was the first artist - and I don't use the word lightly - to make a living doing art photography.… — Rondal Partridge Copy Share Image
While primarily a photographer, I do not see or think photographically; hence the story of Indian life will not be told in… — Edward S. Curtis Copy Share Image
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