Career Quote by Pablo Picasso

Photographers aren't artists, for goodness sake.

— Diana Vreeland

Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.

— Charles Baudelaire

There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the…

— Ernst Haas

It is a serious job being a portrait photographer, which is how I saw myself.

— Astrid Kirchherr

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

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

Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if…

— Nickolas Muray

I’m no part time dilettante photographer, unlike the bartenders, shoe salesmen, floorwalkers plumbers, barbers, grocery clerks and chiropractors whose great hobby is their camera.…

— Weegee

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

— Paul Strand

Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their…

— Jessie Tarbox Beals

If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as…

— Tod Papageorge

That's true, because I'm a photographer now.

— Leonard Nimoy