Devoted Quote by Patti Smith

It's quite difficult to write about photography as a photographer. A lot of better photographers than me have declined to do it.

— Stuart Franklin

I've never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a…

— Dorothea Lange

I've been so lonely trying to become a photographer. If I'd known that before, I don't know if I had the courage to do…

— Robert Adams

I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.

— Garry Winogrand

I would strongly encourage anybody embarking on photography as a career to embrace and enjoy the whole process. Being a photographer can be a…

— Michael Kenna

I really don't have any idea about photography, but I take pictures.

— Alex Majoli

What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion. Sometimes you feel blessed with curiosity, sometimes you…

— Eve Arnold

You have to focus on what you are doing, not just as a photographer, but as a human being.

— Anders Petersen

I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'

— David LaChapelle

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

— Paul Strand

I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I…

— Sally Schneider

I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.

— Graciela Iturbide