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Photographers Quotes by Duane Michals
- 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…
- Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.
- I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
- The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.
- Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an…
- Photographers tend not to photograph what they can’t see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we’re going to go…
- People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no museum shows. Maybe…
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- I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired… — Jacqueline Bisset
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- Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers… — Drew Carey
- Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
- There's people outside our house; you get followed by photographers; you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a… — Jack Osbourne
- A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera… — Arnold Newman
- If I like many photographers, and I do, I account for this by noting a quality they share - animation. They may… — Robert Adams
- The most embarassing is when friends ask you to meet up with them and you have to tell them "Sorry I can't… — Robert Pattinson
- I'm not particularly good at coping with it. I just cope. I just leave my brain at the door and just stand… — Robert Pattinson
- The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson