Photographers Quotes · Page 4

We [photographers] have the tools and the power to create images - we should try to make them as truthful as possible.

— Petra Collins

Some photographers work on the same image for hours and hours and then use the first picture that they took.

— Alice Dellal

Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I don’t have many photographs of myself – a trait common to most professional photographers”

— William Boyd

For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers.

— Subcomandante Marcos

Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.

— Ansel Adams

Attention from the photographers is part of my life and I think the best thing is to learn to deal with it.

— Rande Gerber

It's not my favorite thing, photographers on the street, they are not always very nice to you. But, you just keep on…

— Hilaria Baldwin

I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph.

— Stephen Shore

The still image continues to have a ton of strength. An image taken out of context from one fraction of a second…

— Jill Greenberg

There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the…

— Ernst Haas

I'm happy to help Crest Whitestrips on their mission to inspire photographers everywhere to capture smile moments and would encourage aspiring photographers…

— Nigel Barker

All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they…

— Roland Barthes

I have had the privilege of working with the best in the business, from photographers to designers to magazines. There's not much…

— Chanel Iman

I love Steven Meisel and David Sims' work, I think they're both amazing photographers. I want to be at the same level…

— Brooklyn Beckham

I'm aware of how lucky I am. Being able to make pretty good money, and get to do a lot of fun…

— John C. Reilly

I've never been the type of photographer to live with people I photograph. You know, shoot heroin with them, that kind of…

— Alec Soth

Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex…

— Jessie Tarbox Beals

A close friend of mine, Annie Leibovitz, who I've known for forty years, photographs celebrities every single day of the week but…

— Lawrence Schiller

Making a decision to be a public figure isn't their choice right now. I don't think it's fair. Even though they're beautiful…

— Lisa Marie Presley

Photographers talk about their shoot ratio. Like four to one, six to one, ten to one! Whatever, I'm, like, seven billion to…

— Zoe Leonard

I've noticed that the people who started on film still have the ability to see the person in front of them. Whereas…

— Keira Knightley

I can think of numberless males, from Bonnard to Callahan, who have photographed their lovers and spouses, but I am having trouble…

— Sally Mann

The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on…

— Edward Weston

Photographers never have much incentive to show the world as it is.

— William Leith

A lot of fashion photographers are telling a story with their pictures.

— Eoin Macken

Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.

— Alfred Stieglitz

Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.

— Martin Parr

True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists.

— Bill Jay

You couldn't get away with anything at City because there were always photographers everywhere.

— Micah Richards

When I went to L.A., I started modeling, hoping to travel and learn from photographers. It led to auditions to do commercials.

— Beth Riesgraf

A lot of photographers walk around looking for something 'out there,' but I'm very much interested in what's 'in here.'

— Duane Michals

Photographers undervalue the use of the wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography.

— Ralph Steiner

Photographers and people do try to take advantage of you. You just have to stand your ground and prove you're not an…

— Terry Farrell

A lot of paparazzi wanted to be real photographers but they failed, and they did that instead, and it's not right; it's…

— Peaches Geldof

One of the photographers was like, "Can you stop talking and try to look sexy for a minute?"

— Tracee Ellis Ross

Are you fucking kidding me? - Professional photographers on Instagram

— Nikhil Saluja

We don't have only two eyes; we have hundreds of wonderful eyes, because there are hundreds of wonderful photographers!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

There're only a few photographers I've ever felt really comfortable with.

— Michael Keaton

The immortal photographers will be straightforward photographers, those who do not rely on tricks or special techniques.

— Philippe Halsman