Best Photographer Proverbs

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Art depends on there being affection in its creator's life and an artist must find ways, like everyone else, to nourish it. A photographer down… — Robert Adams
The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace. — Robert Adams
You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the… — Galen Rowell
Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph. — Garry Winogrand
Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance. — Sally Mann
I can think of numberless males, from Bonnard to Callahan, who have photographed their lovers and spouses, but I am having trouble finding parallel examples… — Sally Mann
Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer's paradise, a hunter's Valhalla, an escapist's Utopia. It is what… — Beryl Markham
What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake...spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a… — William Albert Allard
[The photographer's task] is to describe the existing light... Chances are, if you believe the light, you're going to believe that the things photographed existed… — Henry Wessel, Jr.
There's a rapport that any photographer is going to have with his subject matter. And if you don't have a rapport, you're going to find… — Bruce Barnbaum
Once digital came, I could see my images instantly right there on the camera. I think that makes you a better photographer because you can… — Scott Kelby
A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work. — Gregory Heisler
Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer. — Alec Soth
Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description - a window. But every now and… — Alec Soth
Most photographers work best alone, myself included. — Elliott Erwitt
I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want… — Cat Power
I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife… — Irving Penn
Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her.… — Irving Penn
I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer. — Irving Penn
Ill always be an amateur photographer. — Elliott Erwitt
The immortal photographers will be straightforward photographers, those who do not rely on tricks or special techniques. — Philippe Halsman
The head of the photographer is more important than his camera — Philippe Halsman
Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer cannot make them drop… — Philippe Halsman
I never thought I would become a photographer. — Rene Burri
A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields. — Norman Parkinson

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