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The main thing is to study pictures and stop listening to the pontifictaions of photographers. Photographers aren't oracles of wisdom. If they're good photographers, then… — Elliott Erwitt
I still think photographers should be lashed out at. They should be put in a cage where you can poke them with a stick for… — Sean Penn
Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture. — Robert Adams
Outstanding past work in photography, and in fact in all the arts, is very important to today's photographers. But it should be used for inspiration… — Alexey Brodovitch
Photographers should make three or four prints from one negative and then crop them differently. When I was art director at Harper's Bazaar and at… — Alexey Brodovitch
Photographers undervalue the use of the wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography. — Ralph Steiner
There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination. They… — Gordon Willis
These elites, preferring to work in private, are rarely found posed for photographers, and their influence upon events has therefore to be deduced from what… — Harold Wallace Rosenthal
Some of the angles that photographers get on court are not always flattering. — Jelena Jankovic
It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean. — Barbara Kruger
I don't want a gang of shouting, arguing, law-breaking photographers to camp out everywhere we are, all day every day, to continue traumatizing my kids, — Jennifer Garner
I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot of painters and photographers and had a very artistic upbringing. And… — Jared Leto
The celebrity-making machine-photographers, paparazzi, press and stuff like that-can be ruthless. — Catherine Keener
When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad... but it's hard trying to breathe in for such a… — Gary Lineker
I have a really hard time stepping out of a limousine and confronting a sh*tload of photographers who are all screaming at you, because it's… — Julia Ormond
It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and… — Brooke Shields
A photographer is a witness. He has a moral duty. Every picture must be true and honest. I believe a photographer's strength is his ability… — Edouard Boubat
The challenge for me, and for Asian models in general has been convincing editors, stylists and photographers that we can have mass appeal, but Asian,… — Liu Wen
Photographers can create moments that will never happen again but last a lifetime. — Tyler Shields
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
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
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
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
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

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