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My advice for climbers or photographers is to really tune into your own passions and not just what other people are doing or aren't doing.… — Galen Rowell
What my eyes seek in these encounters is not just the beauty traditionally revered by wildlife photographers. The perfection I seek in my photographic composition… — Frans Lanting
Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities. — Dorothea Lange
As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers. — Andreas Feininger
At the heart of all photography is an urge to express our deepest personal feelings - to reveal our inner, hidden selves, to unlock the… — Galen Rowell
The satisfaction comes from working next to 500 photographers and coming away with something different. — David Burnett
Great portrait photographers are great mythologists. — Roland Barthes
I've noticed that the people who started on film still have the ability to see the person in front of them. Whereas for a lot… — Keira Knightley
Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is… — Stephen Shore
I've had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or for film posters. [The topless Interview… — Keira Knightley
Bikers, in general, have just been so attractive to people. Photographers would follow them because there's this weird warrior gravitas that comes with it. The… — Ryan Hurst
Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits. — Minor White
Photographers - idiots, of which there are so many - say, "Oh, if only I had a Nikon or a Leica, I could make great… — Andreas Feininger
I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand… — Duane Michals
The difference between a good picture and a mediocre picture is a question of millimeters - small, small differences - but it’s essential. I didn’t… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I'm the one to do it. — Berenice Abbott
Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it. — Duane Michals
Few photographers have ever considered the photography of wild animals, as distinctly opposed to the genre of Wildlife Photography, as an art form. The emphasis… — Nick Brandt
I want to get a real sense of intimate connection with each of the animals - with that particular lion or elephant in front of… — Nick Brandt
To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the art of photography… — Edward Steichen
I don't think it's necessary to put your feelings about photography in words. I've read things that photographers have written for exhibitions and so forth… — Eliot Porter
Laugh, love, dream, strive, smile, feel, joy, look, try, fail, read, walk, search, share, help, work, fun, learn, retry, sweat, cry, rest, wait, fear, hope,… — Steve Coleman
This idea of helping the next generation is a very intrinsic part of photojournalism. We need to continue to build this new group of photographers… — Ron Haviv
I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized. — Duane Michals

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