If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us. — Minor White Copy Share Image
One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are. — Minor White Copy Share Image
I believe that photography loves banal objects, and I love the life of objects. — Josef Sudek Copy Share Image
I liked the idea of being a photographer, just that you take this one picture of this one thing that'll never happen… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them. — Sid Grossman Copy Share Image
When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line… — Robert Frank Copy Share Image
I believe that photographers should be passionate, determined, disciplined and ready to seek out their own styles and identities. — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Reality has become a parallel universe with photographers returning with different versions of what it truly looks like. — Philip-Lorca diCorcia Copy Share Image
A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
My first modeling job in Paris, the photographer said, 'Tue es belle,' which means, 'you are pretty,' and I thought he said,… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
What’s so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven’t even noticed.… — Jacques-Henri Lartigue Copy Share Image
When I gave up my office job and became a full-time professional photographer, my fortunes certainly improved markedly. We moved away from… — Derek Ridgers Copy Share Image
I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
I don't know what good composition is… Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a certain coming… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
Had I not been told to look, I would have quite, ignorant of what was really there, because I had 'made plans'… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
The way I would describe a pictorial is that it is a picture that makes everybody say ‘Aaaaah,’ with five vowels when… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
A photographer is a witness. He has a moral duty. Every picture must be true and honest. I believe a photographer's strength… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
It is a great honor for me to be compared to Henri Cartier-BressonBut I believe there is a very big difference in… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
Bill Blass came in all the time, and I would make him roast chicken with spring potatoes and spring porcini with spring… — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
... any dodge, or trick, or conjuration of any kind is open to the photographer's use so that it belongs to his… — Henry Peach Robinson Copy Share Image
The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
Being a photographer is making people look at what I want them to look at. — Ruth Orkin Copy Share Image
While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
