Photographer Quotes
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To me, pictures are like blintzes - ya gotta get 'em while they're hot.
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Photography is my only language.
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News photography teaches you to think fast.
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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.
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The fundamental issue is one of emphasis: you are not a photographer because you are interested in photography...The reason is that photography is only a tool, a vehicle, for expressing or transmitting a passion in something else. It is not the end result.
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I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heat of the known awaits just around the corner.
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I posed as an album-cover designer and photographer... That I today have some album covers and photographs to show for myself is a monument to the attention-to-detail of my disguise.
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It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.
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Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.
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Notebook. No photographer should be without one!
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My name is Weegee. I'm the world's greatest photographer.
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In the spirit of Vivian Maier, who worked unaided by any publication or commercial shooting, I set up the Emerging Photographer Fund
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Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
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For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career. As soon as I find a subject which interests me, I leave it to the lens to record it truthfully. Look at the reporters and at the amateur photographer! They both have only one goal; to record a memory or a document. And that is pure photography.
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Great photography is always on the edge of failure.
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When the British-Malaysian photographer Ian Teh first worked in China, more than a decade ago, he rendered it as a nation of people in Technicolor.
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I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.
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Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
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No photographer should be blamed when, instead of capturing reality, he tries to show things he has seen only in his imagination. Photography is the youngest art form. All attempts to enlarge its frontiers are important and should be encouraged.
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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
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We should think of a photographer as a Samurai who makes rituals, moves and gestures in order to develop his techniques and his instinct.
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André Kertész has two qualities that are essential for a great photographer: an insatiable curiosity about the world, about people, and about life, and a precise sense of form.
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What a photograph shows us is how a particular thing could be seen, or could be made to look - at a specific moment, in a specific context, by a specific photographer employing specific tools.
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You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.
