Photographer Quote by Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself.

— John Szarkowski

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

— Berenice Abbott

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

— Gordon Parks

The photographer must bear the responsibility for his work and its effect …[for] photographic journalism, because of its tremendous audience reached by publications using…

— W. Eugene Smith

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

— Paul Strand

Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst.

— Margaret Mead

The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is very interested…

— Alexey Brodovitch

What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently than I do. A good picture must be a completely individual…

— Alexey Brodovitch

A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.

— Bill Brandt

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

— Fred Picker

I believe that photographers should be passionate, determined, disciplined and ready to seek out their own styles and identities.

— Michael Kenna