Average Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.)

— Alfred Stieglitz

In the past, there were many times when I thought, 'This photo doesn't look good with a low angle, or this part bothers me.'

— Nayeon

Some of the angles that photographers get on court are not always flattering.

— Jelena Jankovic

What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently than I do. A good picture must be a completely individual…

— Alexey Brodovitch

“I’ve started to question if the flaws on the finished photograph aren’t an integral part of the portrait: soft focus, underexposure, poorly applied emulsion,…

— Elizabeth Ross

A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe.

— Nobuyoshi Araki

Being someone who people want to photograph, you have to open yourself up to the positive and negative. It is what it is.

— Jon Hamm

The photographer is filled with doubt. Nothing will soothe him.

— Raymond Depardon

The biggest lesson in photography is that from negative we make a positive

— Josef Koudelka

I've always believed a great photographer should concentrate more on depth of feeling and less on depth of field.

— Max Dupain

Any photographer worth his/her salt - that is, any photographer of professional caliber, in control of the craft, regardless of imagistic bent - can…

— A. D. Coleman

The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest—yes. Objective—no.

— W. Eugene Smith