Ardent Quote by Sam Abell

I was a photographer. That's how I began my career, behind the camera.

— Shweta Tripathi

I had been teaching myself photography.

— Ree Drummond

My Dad took a workshop from a photographer who worked at the Toledo Blade, a newspaper I delivered. I knew this photographer's work. My…

— Sam Abell

I have always done the opposite of what I was trained to do... Having little technical background, I became a photographer. Adopting a machine,…

— William Klein

My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills about composition,…

— Patricia Piccinini

I was making photographs of the world long before I was a photographer.

— Marcey Jacobson

I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

— Gaspard Ulliel

One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself.…

— Carl Mydans

My father did advertising photography.

— Andreas Gursky

I began photographing around 14; my mother gave me a camera, it's actually the one I still use for creating most of my work.…

— Erik Madigan Heck

Astonish me! (Instruction to photographers)

— Alexey Brodovitch

My dad was a photographer, so we had all these studio portraits of us.

— Timothy Simons