Photography Quote by Gregory Heisler

Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed…

— Irving Penn

Incidentally, part of a photographer’s gift should be with people. You can do some wonderful work if you know how to make people understand…

— Walker Evans

When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time when he…

— Alexey Brodovitch

The photographer can arrange his picture just as the painter does, only sometimes he must go about it in a different way.

— Laura Gilpin

My responsibility as a photographer, to my subjects, is to know what's going to happen with my images.

— Erin Siegal McIntyre

What is important to my work is the individual picture. I photograph stories on assignment, and of course they have to be put together…

— Steve McCurry

Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.

— Minor White

The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal…

— Bill Brandt

There's a rapport that any photographer is going to have with his subject matter. And if you don't have a rapport, you're going to…

— Bruce Barnbaum

Every successful photograph, except for lucky shots, begins with an idea and a plan. The more precisely a photographer knows what it is he…

— Andreas Feininger

“To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.”

— Ansel Adams

What I was doing for those assignments wasn't always directly tied to what I was doing for myself, but it gave me the space…

— Peter van Agtmael