Accounts Quote by Robert Adams

Yes, there are billions more photographers, and billions more photographs every day, but who's building up a point of view? Who's photographing with intention,…

— Sam Abell

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

Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.

— Duane Michals

I have been a photographer all my life…and have made photographs of many things and for many reasons. But one thing that becomes more…

— Ralph Gibson

The majority of photographers still seek artistic effects, imitating other mediums of graphic expression. The result is a hybrid product that does not succeed…

— Tina Modotti

There are many aspects about what and why we photograph: visual pleasure, personal empathy, intellectual stimulation, technical excellence, etc. Serious photographers and artists will…

— Michael Kenna

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

The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who is really…

— Alexey Brodovitch

Photography should be redefined. It's largely technical... Photography is just unbelievably limiting. I always think of David Bailey and all the fashion photographers -…

— Peter Beard

The immortal photographers will be straightforward photographers, those who do not rely on tricks or special techniques.

— Philippe Halsman

A few photographers make a killing; the rest can't make a living.

— Bill Jay

I believe that photographers should be passionate, determined, disciplined and ready to seek out their own styles and identities.

— Michael Kenna