Photographers Quotes

I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me.

— Sidney Poitier

Discussions allow photographers to shuffle their prejudices

— Bill Jay

Most photographers work best alone, myself included.

— Elliott Erwitt

Astonish me! (Instruction to photographers)

— Alexey Brodovitch

Why do photographers photograph? To make unreality visible.

— Bill Jay

I think all photographers fit their vision to their personality.

— Kim Weston

Photographers are always imposing

— Susan Sontag

“Photographers don't take pictures. They create images.”

— Mark Denman

Photographers are always voyeuristic, and they do sort of live vicariously. I think every artist does.

— Patricia Bosworth

Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.

— Charles Baudelaire

I like photographers - you don't ask questions. (To a gathering of the White House News Photographers Association)

— Ronald Reagan

A lot of fashion photographers will do the same sort of image for many years; it's easier to be successful if you…

— Mario Testino

There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.

— Janet Malcolm

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

— Garry Winogrand

While in Paris, I got into modeling - photographers would literally stop me on the street.

— Khoudia Diop

“I believe all photographers want to be remembered for their images. They reflect a piece of their soul.”

— Christopher Paul Flateau

I think there a lot of great photographers working right now in the 2010. At the same time I do occasionally feel…

— Polly Allen Mellen

Grunge came from a group of English photographers, and they were documenting their own reality... I'm South American - we celebrate life.

— Mario Testino

I've learned to suck in my stomach when photographers are around. I used to read gossip magazines all the time, but I…

— Fergie

“We photographers are a despicable bunch. We take photographs. The best of us do not show people as they wish to be…

— Waswo X. Waswo

I do find it strange, doing magazine shoots. Photographers always go, 'Why don't you like to have your picture taken? That's what…

— James McAvoy

Photography is a tool to negotiate our idea of reality. Thus it is the responsibility of photographers to not contribute with anaesthetic…

— Joan Fontcuberta

There's no great mystique to photography. A lot of photographers like to put their hands up to their forehead and tell you…

— Elliott Erwitt

If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work…

— Tod Papageorge

“I photographer because I want a visual diary. Photography lets me capture the fleeting moments of daily life, the images would otherwise…

— Chris Geiger

Today, the paparazzi are not just photographers: everyone has a cell phone with a camera. If they see an actor, they click…

— Ranbir Kapoor

I still think photographers should be lashed out at. They should be put in a cage where you can poke them with…

— Sean Penn

A photographer's best pictures are from deep inside him, and also some of the worst. Some photographers enjoy distinguished careers without ever…

— Burk Uzzle

For spiritual companions I have had the many artists who have relied on nature to help shape their imagination. And their most…

— Sam Abell

When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do…

— Robert Adams

I must admit that I am not a member of the ugly school. I have a great regard for certain notions of…

— Saul Leiter

Conflict photographers grapple with two worlds that are themselves often in conflict - the one where bombs fall and bullets fly, where…

— Alan Huffman

“Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes forever the precise and transitory instant. We photographers deal…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photographers, like kids, should be seen and not heard.

— Bill Jay

The best photographers know how to light any color skin.

— Edward Enninful

We photographers are poets in the language of symbols.

— Jan Phillips

Like most photographers, I try to capture a moment in my work.

— Julian Lennon

Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing...

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Old photographers never die, they just f- stop”

— Anonymous

A few photographers make a killing; the rest can't make a living.

— Bill Jay