Art Quote by Carl Mydans

You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or…

— Nobuyoshi Araki

If you're a photographer, you end up being the raw creative force that allows other people to see what kind of narrative you want…

— Cole Sprouse

The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often…

— Aaron Scharf

A person cannot learn to be a photographer. He can only cultivate what he already has. I try to make people aware that they…

— Ruth Bernhard

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

Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their…

— Patti Smith

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things.…

— David Bailey

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

The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is…

— Edward Weston

Photography is a craft. Anyone can learn a craft with normal intelligence and application. To take it beyond the craft is something else. That's…

— Elliott Erwitt

Photography is not easy. You know it takes a painter or a sculpture or a musician years to perfect their technique. Then they're free…

— Paul Caponigro

Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world we know,…

— Emmet Gowin