Best Photographer Proverbs
759 Photographer quotes by 325 unique authors
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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
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The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.
— Robert Adams
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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
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Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.
— Garry Winogrand
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Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.
— Sally Mann
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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
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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
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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
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[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.
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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
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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
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A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work.
— Gregory Heisler
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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
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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
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Most photographers work best alone, myself included.
— Elliott Erwitt
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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
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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
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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
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I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
— Irving Penn
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Ill always be an amateur photographer.
— Elliott Erwitt
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The immortal photographers will be straightforward photographers, those who do not rely on tricks or special techniques.
— Philippe Halsman
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The head of the photographer is more important than his camera
— Philippe Halsman
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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
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I never thought I would become a photographer.
— Rene Burri
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A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.
— Norman Parkinson
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