Fisherman Quote by Robert Doisneau

Just as a fisherman cannot catch fish unless his line is in the water, a wildlife photographer cannot shoot great wildlife images unless he…

— George H. Harrison

Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Being a photographer is making people look at what I want them to look at.

— Ruth Orkin

A photographer's reality is what he or she wants to show.

— Fred Picker

You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.

— Elliott Erwitt

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him…

— Brooks Atkinson

Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can't see watches you.

— Dorothea Lange

Cameras are like dogs, but dumb, and toward quarry, even more faithful. They point, they render, and defy the photographer who hopes.

— Tod Papageorge

In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick...Like an animal and a prey.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to…

— Edward Weston

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

— Graciela Iturbide

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

— Jonathan Safran Foer