Approach Quote by Alfred Eisenstaedt

Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly…

— Alfred Stieglitz

As a matter of fact, nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following photography for…

— Alfred Stieglitz

As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers.

— Andreas Feininger

I was an amateur - I am an amateur - and I intend to stay an amateur. To me an amateur photographer is one…

— Erwin Blumenfeld

I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.

— Elliott Erwitt

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

— Edward Weston

It always amazes me that just when I think there's nothing left to do in photography and that all permutations and possibilities have been…

— Chuck Close

One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself.…

— Carl Mydans

I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is…

— John Sexton

When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time when he…

— Alexey Brodovitch

The difference between an amateur and a professional photographer is that the amateur thinks the camera does the work. And they treat the camera…

— David Hemmings

I'll always be an amateur photographer.

— Elliott Erwitt