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Before he came to Spain, photographers lined up in the discotheques, but they are still there waiting for him. Ronaldo is an obsessive of training,… — Jorge Valdano
These days I think the composers of music influence me more than any photographers or visual creators. I see something exciting or lovely and think… — Ralph Steiner
The only thing we photographers really want more than life, more than sex, more than anything, is to be invisible. — Philip Jones Griffiths
I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The… — John Dykstra
One shouldn’t be only two photographers but thousands. — Jacques-Henri Lartigue
I must admit that I am not a member of the ugly school. I have a great regard for certain notions of beauty even though… — Saul Leiter
I dressed all in black and went to see all the top photographers, like Irving Penn, and said, 'I am Veruschka who comes from the… — Veruschka von Lehndorff
I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers. — Lauren Hutton
It's just a matter of who you are and how you talk to people. Your subjects will trust you only if you're confident about what… — Mary Ellen Mark
Many photographers live in a dream world of beautiful backgrounds. It wouldn’t hurt them to get a taste of reality to wake them up. — Weegee
A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer, past or present,… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing... — Henri Cartier-Bresson
A photographer's best pictures are from deep inside him, and also some of the worst. Some photographers enjoy distinguished careers without ever taking personal photographs.… — Burk Uzzle
I want to try out for Playmate actually. I talked to one of the photographers about doing test shots. — Trishelle Cannatella
Theoretical scientists who probe the secrets of the universe and philosophers who seek answers to existence, as well as painters such as Paul Klee who… — Wynn Bullock
The word “photography” can be interpreted as “writing with light” or “drawing with light.” Some photographers are producing beautiful photographs by drawing with light.. Some… — Philippe Halsman
Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that 'language' themselves just as musicians learn a more… — Howard S. Becker
Why do most great pictures look uncontrived? Why do photographers bother with the deception, especially since it so often requires the hardest work of all?… — Robert Adams
Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being said. Photographers, on… — Howard S. Becker
The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking… — Aaron Scharf
How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness… — Aaron Scharf
One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the early 'fifties' what… — John Szarkowski
Some of the young photographers today enter photography where I leave off. My "grandchildren" astound me. What I worked for they seem to be born… — Minor White
I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but… — Anthony Holden
They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from… — Helmut Newton

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