--- title: "4 Amy Arbus Quotes - Famous Photographer" description: "American photographer (born 1954)... | Amy Arbus is an American photographer. She teaches portraiture at the International Center of Photography, Anders..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-amy-arbus-73866.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Amy Arbus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-amy-arbus-73866.jpg) # Amy Arbus (1954) Photographer **4** quotes in **34** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Amy Arbus is a photographer. ## Quick Facts About Amy Arbus Born April 16, 1954 Profession Photographer ## About Amy Arbus American photographer (born 1954)... \| Amy Arbus is an American photographer. She teaches portraiture at the International Center of Photography, Anderson Ranch, NORD photography and the Fine Arts Work Center. She has published several books of photography, including The Fourth Wall which The New Yorker called her "masterpiece". Her work ## Quotes by Amy Arbus > [It's entirely ridiculous and hopeless to try to compete with somebody who made such a huge contribution to photography... I knew when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-arbus/it-s-entirely-ridiculous-and-hopeless-to-try-to-compete-with-somebody/) [Amy Arbus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-arbus/) [Contribution](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/contribution/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/064/amy-arbus-73866_contribution_it-s-entirely-ridiculous-and-hopeless-to_1014598.jpg) > [My mother's work has been an enormous influence on me, but not literally. By that I mean, my photographs don't look like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-arbus/my-mother-s-work-has-been-an-enormous-influence-on-me-but-not/) [Amy Arbus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-arbus/) [Compare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/compare/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b50/amy-arbus-73866_compare_my-mother-s-work-has-been-an-enormous-in_1386664.jpg) > [When I ask to photograph someone, it is because I love the way they look and I think I make that clear.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-arbus/when-i-ask-to-photograph-someone-it-is-because-i-love-the-way-they/) [Amy Arbus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-arbus/) [Asks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/asks/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a0/amy-arbus-73866_asks_when-i-ask-to-photograph-someone-it-is-b_1475971.jpg) > [Richard Avedon taught me that if you go into a photo session and come out with what you had hoped for, it’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-arbus/richard-avedon-taught-me-that-if-you-go-into-a-photo-session-and-come/) [Amy Arbus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-arbus/) [Failure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/failure/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f5/amy-arbus-73866_failure_richard-avedon-taught-me-that-if-you-go_2561127.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-arbus/#itemlist", "name": "Amy Arbus Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It's entirely ridiculous and hopeless to try to compete with somebody who made such a huge contribution to photography... 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