Photographer Quotes
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I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she made it easy for me.
Natalie Coughlin -
I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.
Garry Winogrand
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Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Pablo Picasso -
French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
Carine Roitfeld -
There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers I have no interest in at all.
Garry Winogrand -
We feel more emotion... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer, because his domain partakes of art, and the intent of the souvenir-object remains at the lower level of personal history.
Chris Marker -
The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.
Andre Kertesz -
I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
Sam Abell
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I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.
Sam Abell -
I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very often I'm doing one thing when I'm thought to be doing another.
Walker Evans -
Anyone who looks for life can find it... and they don't need to photograph ashcans. The average camera fan reminds me of Pollyanna, with a lollypop in one hand and a camera in the other. You can't be a Nice Nelly and take news pictures.
Weegee -
Most of the information we now get is through television and is mutilated. Photography offers the opportunity to spend much more time on a topic. It's relatively cheaper medium, and can allow a photographer really to live in another place, show another reality, get closer to the truth.
Sebastiao Salgado -
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
Edward Steichen -
I’m no part time dilettante photographer, unlike the bartenders, shoe salesmen, floorwalkers plumbers, barbers, grocery clerks and chiropractors whose great hobby is their camera. All their friends rave about what wonderful pictures they take. If they’re so good, why don’t they take pictures full—time, for a living, and make floor walking, chiropractics, etc., their hobby? But everyone wants to play it safe. They’re afraid to give up their pay checks and their security they might miss a meal.
Weegee
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The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.
Eve Arnold -
I can't talk about my style. It us kind of difficult for me. I don't like styles. I only like taking photos and expressing myself through them.
Andre Kertesz -
There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it’s the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera.
Weegee -
What I did, anybody can do.
Weegee -
I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.
Gaspard Ulliel -
The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who is really productive for more than eight or ten years.
Alexey Brodovitch
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I'm often uncomfortable taking pictures, especially if people are grieving, or hurt, or hungry. At such times I have to remind myself that I'm a photographer and that this is my job.
Eugene Richards -
I do not document anything, I give an interpretation.
Andre Kertesz -
If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a dark vision.
Carine Roitfeld -
I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
Garry Winogrand