Investigator Quote by Graciela Iturbide

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

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

I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera.

— David Hurn

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

— Paul Strand

Photography is inextricably linked with life; the photographer is not invisibly behind the camera but projecting a life-attitude through the lens to create an…

— Bill Jay

I really don't have any idea about photography, but I take pictures.

— Alex Majoli

Photography is about how you look and how you dream and how you see and what your interests are.

— David Doubilet

What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion. Sometimes you feel blessed with curiosity, sometimes you…

— Eve Arnold

One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself.…

— Carl Mydans

I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.

— Berenice Abbott

A photographer's reality is what he or she wants to show.

— Fred Picker

You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or…

— Nobuyoshi Araki