Adopting Quote by William Klein

I always say I make pictures rather than take pictures.

— Terry Richardson

My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then…

— Sam Abell

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

— Shweta Tripathi

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

I realized eventually that if I was really on top of what I was doing, I should be able to make photographs out of…

— Grant Mudford

I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would…

— Stephen Sprouse

Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their…

— Patti Smith

I've been into photography for years and I do it as often as possible. I'm just trying to develop myself.

— C. J. Wilson

I really don't have any idea about photography, but I take pictures.

— Alex Majoli

To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them…

— Kim Weston

I've always painted or drawn pictures or taken still photographs; now I shoot movies. It's just about making images, really.

— Roger Deakins

Of course, all my work is photographed and I also take quite a lot of photographs of work in production.

— Patricia Piccinini