Photographer Quote by William Eggleston Download Open image “You become technically proficient whether you want to or not, the more you take pictures.” — William Eggleston ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Photographer Want
You have to focus on what you are doing, not just as a photographer, but as a human being. — Anders Petersen Copy Share Image
Skills are never taught, they are acquired. I can give you a camera, but can't feed your vision. — Raghu Rai Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them. — Jennifer Jason Leigh Copy Share Image
As long as I can remember, being in pictures has made it necessary for me to do my best at all times. I really… — Jackie Coogan Copy Share Image
It's a pity I am so impatient and careless, as any ordinary person could learn all the techniques of photography in a week. It… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
It's a lot easier to take pictures if you always have the camera with you. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it. — Eliot Porter Copy Share Image
One thing I learnt was that you don't have to spend all day shooting: you can get it done in half an hour if… — Aneurin Barnard Copy Share Image
As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I like to think that my works flow like music. That may be one reason I work in large groups versus one picture of… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot. — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I had the attitude that I would work with this present-day material and do the best I could to describe it with photography, not… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
Generally, that's what happens-a fundamental rotting of the idea. They woke up with the wrong idea. It's just like music: If you don't have… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I knew it was happening, but I never paid much attention to it . . . just to the passage of time. Something new… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
Unfortunately they're practically all dead. And many were my closest associates: friends, co-directors, whatever you want to say - my partners in crime. — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important. — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color. — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
The immediate reviews were very hostile, but they didn't bother me-I had the attitude that I was right. The poor guys who were critics… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
Only the few times I've been to so-called treatment centers, which were a complete waste of money and useless. I didn't know what I… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I quite frequently don't look through the camera, which is very close to being blind. — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
A lot of my friends were mostly working in black-and-white-people like Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and others. We would exchange prints with… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words,… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
You know, they always say that the photographer is a hunter of images. That is a flattering image, the idea of a hunter, it's… — Robert Doisneau Copy Share Image
I know my idea of beauty isn't what most people's is, and the fact that I'm getting the opportunity to show my beauty and… — Kelly Osbourne Copy Share Image
I was taking all prints and I brought them to the Magnum meetings, trying the old Josef Koudelka trick: Give them to photographers, who… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
Out in the field I try not to hold expectations. I try to achieve an openness. The senses heighten so that I am totally… — Keith Lazelle Copy Share Image
[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image