Attention Quote by Alfred Stieglitz

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

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

Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not — achieve the mastery of…

— Roland Barthes

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

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

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

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

— Elliott Erwitt

We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers.

— Charlotte Cotton

Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors are part of it, they give it poetry and…

— Miroslav Tichy

A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe.

— Nobuyoshi Araki

Astonish me! (Instruction to photographers)

— Alexey Brodovitch