Doors Quote by Gordon Parks

A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.

— Sam Abell

I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph.

— Stephen Shore

It's not how a photographer looks at the world that is important. It's their intimate relationship with it.

— Antoine D'Agata

“We photographers are a despicable bunch. We take photographs. The best of us do not show people as they wish to be seen, instead,…

— Waswo X. Waswo

It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of…

— Bill Brandt

“Photography is like stealing.You rob someone of a moment that exposes something essential about their character,their soul if you like.there are people who are…

— Esther Verhoef

A photographer looks at everything, which is why he must look from beginning to end. Face the subject head-on, stay fixed, turn the entire…

— Shomei Tomatsu

The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.

— Minor White

The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them.

— Sid Grossman

“There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer”

— Ansel Adams

So many people are diverted to doing what people want photographed - fashion models, buildings, mountains - they get to thinking those photographs are…

— Rondal Partridge

“The photographer does the world a great disservice when he leaves his camera at home.”

— Mark Denman