Accidents Quote by Dorothea Lange

“Cautious as a camera-man engaged in shooting a family of fourteen lions”

— Stella Gibbons

There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.

— Samuel Butler

Photography is an accident.

— Patrick Demarchelier

Photography is a transformation, not a reproduction.

— Ernst Haas

I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my…

— Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“The photographer is now charging real beasts, beleaguered and too rare to kill. Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology…

— Susan Sontag

The head of the photographer is more important than his camera

— Philippe Halsman

I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

— Richard Avedon

Just because you have a camera doesn't make you a photographer.

— Anonymous

I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There…

— George Bernard Shaw

To be a photographer you must have something to say about the world.

— Paul Strand

A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It is therefore…

— Mark Rothko