Compliment Quote by John Sexton

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you…

— Mary Ellen Mark

I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.

— Andre Kertesz

When you're with people that are aware of the fact that you're a photographer, they'll say, "Oh, look at that! That's something to take…

— Ari Marcopoulos

I wish I were a really good photographer.

— Claire Messud

Photography has been very, very generous to me, but at the same time has damaged me.

— Don McCullin

Max Kozloff said to me one day, ‘You’re not really a photographer. You do photography, but you do it for your own purposes –…

— Saul Leiter

When you start photographing yourself, you are going to be amazed at all the things you find out about yourself, and you'll be glad…

— Bunny Yeager

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

— Robert Doisneau

It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.

— Ryan McGinley

“I don’t have many photographs of myself – a trait common to most professional photographers”

— William Boyd

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

— Paul Strand

I think the fact that you have long - term relationships, this is a very unusual thing in the world, and I thought it…

— Anton Corbijn