Distinction Quote by Garry Winogrand

I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography—that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as landscape and…

— Joel Meyerowitz

A photographer is a photographer and an artist is an artist. I don't believe in labels or titles. Why should a painter or sculptor…

— Peter Lindbergh

The discussion about whether photography is or isn't art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not your title.

— Peter Lindbergh

Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their…

— Patti Smith

You are not a photographer because you are interested in photography.

— David Hurn

I hate to say I'm a photographer, because I learned photography as I went along. But I also hate to say I'm a painter,…

— Vik Muniz

It's quite difficult to write about photography as a photographer. A lot of better photographers than me have declined to do it.

— Stuart Franklin

IT'S a pitfall to have a definition of photography,

— Jeff Wall

I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.

— Garry Winogrand

It’s a very weird thing being a photographer.

— Danny Lyon

Street Photography is like fishing. Catching the fish is more exciting than eating it.

— Thomas Leuthard

You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.

— Elliott Erwitt