I fell into this thing by accident. I was never supposed to be a photographer. — Christopher Anderson Copy Share Image
I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible. — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all. — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
“When I make a photograph I feel that I hold a piece of the universe in my hands.” — Paul Chaplo Copy Share Image
Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Art is technique: a means by which to materialize the invisible realm of the mind. — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything. — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If I came out a photographer it's because I knew about painting, composition, and the handling of light. — Lola Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything! — Jacques-Henri Lartigue Copy Share Image
Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.) — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them. — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
Different people can photograph the same things with the same tools and create such different images. — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
I appreciate photographs which celebrate harmony. I don't particularly want to look at chaos. I see enough of that at home. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
It's the subject matter that counts. I'm interested in revealing the subject in a new way to intensify it. A photo is… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Few photographers have ever considered the photography of wild animals, as distinctly opposed to the genre of Wildlife Photography, as an art… — Nick Brandt Copy Share Image
What matters is not what you photograph, but why and how you photograph it. Even the most controversial subject, if depicted by… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
“If you're waiting for a sign from the skies to become a great photographer, the extraordinary images that suddenly appear before you… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I think one of the aspects of photography that remains for me is I find the process still frustrating. The counter to… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
I've heard Braggadocio about excess baggage charges, multiple unused hotel rooms, and rental cars held unused for long periods of time, which… — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
I was fooling around one day and looking at Yahoo! Jobs. I typed in "photo" and, of course, what comes up is… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
The pressure is always very high. I am the client, and when I am the client, I need to fight with the… — Frida Giannini Copy Share Image
When I was just starting out, I met Cartier-Bresson. He wasn't young in age but, in his mind, he was the youngest… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
The photographer sees the world as a child sees the bits of glass in a kaleidoscope. If he has a camera with… — Francis Meadow Sutcliffe Copy Share Image
It never seemed important to me that my photos be published. It's important that I take them. There were periods where I… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
I work in several different groups of pictures which act on and with each other - ranging from several abstracted manners to… — Ralph Eugene Meatyard Copy Share Image
What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
Photography is inextricably linked with life; the photographer is not invisibly behind the camera but projecting a life-attitude through the lens to… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
