Best Photographer Qoutes
759 Photographer quotes by 325 unique authors
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I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The photographer's intentions do not determine the meaning of a photograph, which will have its own career, blown by the whims and loyalties of the…
— Susan Sontag
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Photographers are always imposing
— Susan Sontag
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Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the…
— Ansel Adams
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Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of…
— Valentino Garavani
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Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out and went round…
— Martin Parr
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I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found there was a…
— Martin Parr
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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 and I love…
— Lisa Marie Presley
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The best photographers are super nice people and that its not a coincidence. Great photographers genuinely like people, and people can feel that. That's what…
— Sergio Leone
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If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy.
— Jay Maisel
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The whole world is there for you. Gifts will happen, but only if you are patient with life itself, the shooting process, and your own…
— Jay Maisel
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There is no bad light. There is spectacular light and difficult light. It's up to you to use the light you have.
— Jay Maisel
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The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the light is everywhere,…
— Jay Maisel
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Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content.
— Jay Maisel
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We have always wanted to find the 'it-ness' of anything we shoot. We want to get as deep into the subject as we can.
— Jay Maisel
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You will, in time, see and show others not just the superficial, but the details, the meanings, and the implications of all that you look…
— Jay Maisel
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One color alone means nothing. I acts as in a vacuum, with no other colors to relate to. It is only when colors relate to…
— Jay Maisel
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Color is seductive. It changes as it interacts with other colors, it changes because of the light falling upon it, and it changes as it…
— Jay Maisel
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You cannot accurately remember color ...
— Jay Maisel
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'Color' is quite different from 'colors.' In an image with many colors, we find that all the colors compete with each other rather than interacting…
— Jay Maisel
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There really isn't anything that you could call 'bad' color. It all has to do with the amount of color you use and in what…
— Jay Maisel
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Some have said that if you take a great picture in color and take away the color, you'll have a great black-and-white picture. But if…
— Jay Maisel
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What you're shooting at doesn't matter, the real question is: 'Does it give you joy?'
— Jay Maisel
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Always shoot it now. It won't be the same when you go back.
— Jay Maisel
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You must not think of yourself as looking at the stage from the audience. You must think of it as theatre in the round and…
— Jay Maisel
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