Career Quote by Nickolas Muray

For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life.

— Wynn Bullock

I think photography has a huge potential to expand a circle of knowledge. There's a reality that we are all the more linked globally…

— Susan Meiselas

Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.

— Paul Caponigro

Rather than a profession, photography has always been a passion for me, a passion closer to an obsession.

— Marc Riboud

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

We have a long history of snapshot photography that appeared to many to be more arbitrary and idiosyncratic than much of the work of…

— Fred Ritchin

Photography has always been important to me for that, being able to make sense of something or understand something or remember something or laugh…

— Nick Zinner

I've been working with photography for many years.

— Leonard Nimoy

I'm really interested in photography, like every other human being.

— Alexa Chung

The one thing that is always clear in my mind is that the people, and their stories, and the themes of life that I…

— Peter Turnley

I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my…

— Irving Penn

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

— Ansel Adams