Best Photographer Sayings

759 Photographer quotes by 325 unique authors

I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that. — Sam Abell
I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality. — Sam Abell
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them. — Diane Arbus
I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse. — Diane Arbus
[My work as a photographer is a] mission to document endangered species and landscapes in order to show a world worth saving. — Joel Sartore
There's people outside our house; you get followed by photographers; you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a friend without someone… — Jack Osbourne
It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it,… — James Agee
A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a… — Arnold Newman
One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself. This… — Unknown Author
I have a deep love and respect for children and I cannot imagine photographic life without them playing a major part. I hope that through… — Anne Geddes
If I like many photographers, and I do, I account for this by noting a quality they share - animation. They may or may not… — Robert Adams
The most embarassing is when friends ask you to meet up with them and you have to tell them "Sorry I can't go to that… — Robert Pattinson
I'm not particularly good at coping with it. I just cope. I just leave my brain at the door and just stand there. I can… — Robert Pattinson
A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of a chasm between… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ... — John Szarkowski
At 42, I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this, I just felt… — Wynn Bullock
If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is… — Eve Arnold
No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad days, bad clients,… — Joe McNally
What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the… — William Albert Allard
Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good — Garry Winogrand
It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera — Sebastiao Salgado
I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk,… — Alex Webb
There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer. — Alfred Eisenstaedt

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