Best Photographer Words

759 Photographer quotes by 325 unique authors

One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family; I was to be… — Cornell Capa
The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism. — Cornell Capa
There's no great mystique to photography. A lot of photographers like to put their hands up to their forehead and tell you how they've suffered… — Elliott Erwitt
As a professional photographer I take photographs for other people to see - but I want them to see what I see. So I never… — Elliott Erwitt
The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it is precisely here… — Paul Strand
Photographers can either look out the window at the world or they can look in the mirror. — David Alan Harvey
Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man. — Edward Weston
A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone… — Richard Avedon
If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important as the equipment… — Margaret Bourke-White
"Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to approach… — Edward Weston
The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel… — Edward Weston
It is essential for the photographer to know the effect of his lenses. The lens is his eye, and it makes or ruins his pictures.… — Bill Brandt
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to… — Brooks Atkinson
Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their craft.… — Unknown Author
If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as possible,… — Henri Matisse
The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental process that starts… — Roman Vishniac
Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher. — John Szarkowski
In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he thinks will make… — John Szarkowski
More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it is… — Beaumont Newhall
The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding… — Edward Weston
Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not call yourself an "artist-photographer" and make "artist-painters" and "artist-sculptors" laugh; call yourself a photographer and wait for artists to call you brother." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You know you are seeing such a photograph if you say to yourself, "I could have taken that picture. I've seen such a scene before,… — Sam Abell
One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time… — Galen Rowell
Photography has always reminded me of the second child.. trying to prove itself. The fact that it wasn't really considered an art.. that it was… — Richard Avedon

Who Wrote These Photographer Quotes

325 authors contributed a total of 759 Photographer Quotes, led by these top contributors:

Best Photographer Words

More Ways to Read Photographer Quotes

Who Wrote These Photographer Quotes