Best Photographer Quotations

759 Photographer quotes by 325 unique authors

Notebook. No photographer should be without one! — Ansel Adams
For spiritual companions I have had the many artists who have relied on nature to help shape their imagination. And their most elaborate equipment was… — Sam Abell
It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I… — Lee Friedlander
The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world… — Margaret Bourke-White
I think you reveal yourself by what you choose to photograph, but I prefer photographs that tell more about the subject. There's nothing much interesting… — Mary Ellen Mark
You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there. — Eve Arnold
And that desire-the strong desire to take pictures-is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing. Whether working or… — Sam Abell
To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft. — John Szarkowski
I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible. — Richard Avedon
The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them. — Sid Grossman
Give half a dozen men the same camera, lenses and plates, and send them to the same place to do the same thing, and all… — Frederick H. Evans
...everything around us, dead or alive, in the eyes of a crazy photographer mysteriously takes on many variations, so that a seemingly dead object comes… — Josef Sudek
By some special graciousness of fate I am deposited - as all good photographers like to be - in the right place at the right… — Margaret Bourke-White
As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights... That all significant perfect moment,… — Margaret Bourke-White
But I did not always know just what it was I wanted to photograph. I believe it is important for a photographer to discover this,… — Bill Brandt
The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little, but insofar as it is… — Susan Sontag
When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know where… — Robert Adams
Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because it allows them… — Robert Adams
The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope. This… — Robert Adams
I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera. — David Hurn
This idea fascinates me. The idea that a few seconds of watching a photographer in action can tell you his/her status in the medium. And… — David Hurn
...one day I was speculating on how I would like to look back on life and I decided I wanted to feel that I was… — David Hurn
I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject at the time… — David Hurn
I think of myself as a reportage photographer. I like the word. It implies a personal account of an observed event with connotations of subjectivity… — David Hurn
You are not a photographer because you are interested in photography. — David Hurn

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