Awards Quote by Peter Lik

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

— Paul Strand

My least favorite photographer to have would be myself. Someone who wanted a career at National Geographic. Because it's almost mathematically impossible to achieve…

— Sam Abell

I want to be the toughest photographer in the world.

— Don McCullin

My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful…

— Mathew Brady

I wish I were a really good photographer.

— Claire Messud

I admire photographers who can take much more ordinarily subject matter and make it transcend that ordinariness, so that it becomes something else fresh…

— Andy Summers

I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define…

— Richard Avedon

While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third,…

— Douglass North

I am someone who takes pleasure in exploring the full scale of the medium photography. I am a photographer.

— Juergen Teller

My name is Weegee. I’m the world’s greatest photographer…

— Weegee

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

— Jesse Owens

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