Best Photographer Wisdom

759 Photographer quotes by 325 unique authors

Photographers can create moments that will never happen again but last a lifetime. — Tyler Shields
The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. (meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he, the photographer, meets… — Brassai
André Kertész has two qualities that are essential for a great photographer: an insatiable curiosity about the world, about people, and about life, and a precise… — Brassai
I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often I see photographers… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
To be a photographer you must have something to say about the world. — Paul Strand
If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist. — Paul Strand
The camera cannot, but the photographer can. — Ansel Adams
One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket. — Ansel Adams
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument. — Ansel Adams
Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept. — Ansel Adams
I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I… — Lee Friedlander
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 learning… — Edward Weston
I try to photograph people's spirits and thoughts. As to the soul-taking by the photographer, I don't feel I take away, but rather that the… — Yousuf Karsh
Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can. The revelation,… — Yousuf Karsh
It should be the aim of every photographer to make a single exposure that shows everything about the subject. I have been told that my… — Yousuf Karsh
There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my 'deeper' work. Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it.… — Richard Avedon
And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though… — Richard Avedon
The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is what the making… — Richard Avedon
Camera lies all the time. It’s all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you… the moment… — Richard Avedon
I’ve said about a million times that the best thing a young photographer can do is to stay close to home. Start with your friends… — Annie Leibovitz
There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's not any harder… — Annie Leibovitz
The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business. — Robert Capa
C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when he tried to… — Robert Adams
I've been so lonely trying to become a photographer. If I'd known that before, I don't know if I had the courage to do it… — Robert Adams

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