Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
A camera exposes more than just an image. It also exposes the photographer. — Steve Coleman Copy Share Image
The subject isn't always a help to the photographer, it's like handcuffs. — Raymond Depardon Copy Share Image
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
Always wait for the trigger. The trigger is the final part of the puzzle, the reason you want to shoot. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance. — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
I can’t stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
I feel all things as dynamic events, being, changing, and interacting with each other in space and time even as I photograph… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises. — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
Some people have told me they remember the film that one of my images is derived from, but in fact I had… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Larry Schwarm's photographs of fire on the prairie are so compelling that I cannot imagine any later photographer trying to do better.… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
In music I still prefer the minor key, and in printing I like the light coming from the dark. I like pictures… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Photography has always reminded me of the second child.. trying to prove itself. The fact that it wasn't really considered an art..… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
When I worked as a music and fashion photographer, I always had the nagging feeling that there was something missing, that I… — Giles Duley Copy Share Image
Most of the information we now get is through television and is mutilated. Photography offers the opportunity to spend much more time… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
When the light is right and everything is working for me, I feel as tense as when making a difficult maneuver high… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
Why do most great pictures look uncontrived? Why do photographers bother with the deception, especially since it so often requires the hardest… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I was living in Monterey, a place where the classic photographers - the Westons, Wynn Bullock and Ansel Adams - came for… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
It might take us a lifetime to find out what it is we need to say. Most of us fall into where… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
The question is not whether a picture is good, in some formal, technical sense, but, does it mean what I need it… — Thomas Roma Copy Share Image
When you're a well-known fashion photographer, modeling agencies call constantly. They'll say, This great girl is in town for three days. She's… — Jurgen Teller Copy Share Image
There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my 'deeper' work. Fashion is where I make my living. I'm… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
You find that you have to do many things, more than just lift up the camera and shoot, and so you get… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the life cycle, the way skin metamorphoses over time. I am mesmerized by skin and that's… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time. — Andre Kertesz Copy Share Image
“A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face. — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
