Photographer Quotes
-
It is the purpose of life that each of us strives to become actually what he or she is potentially. Each photographer, then, should be obsessed with stretching towards that goal through an understanding of others and the world we inhabit. When that happens, the results, like photographs, are really the expressions of the life of the maker.
-
I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
-
I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.
-
Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer.
-
I didn’t see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn’t make those boundaries. If someone wants to think it’s art, that’s great, but I’ll let history decide.
-
I am the photographer of the de-industrial revolution in England. I didn’t set out to be this. It’s what happened during the time I was photographing.
-
It's been a strange [summer].... I was sent by a magazine to photograph famous photographers.... Of course, I included myself.
-
What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.
-
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.
-
I want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I've never been a bit interested in the fact that this was a picture of a blues musician or a street corner or something.
-
We should think of a photographer as a Samurai who makes rituals, moves and gestures in order to develop his techniques and his instinct.
-
In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.
-
We photographers have the tools and the power to create images - we should try to make them as truthful as possible.
-
Photography just gets us out of the house.
-
A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.
-
We are extremely precise about the girls we like; they're not necessarily the "It" girls of the season. Sometimes this "It" girl business gets a bit hysterical. It's all about which girl did which shoot with which photographer.
-
We had to pose with towels wrapped around us, holding rubber rings, that sort of thing. The turning point came when a photographer asked us to get on a fur rug and crawl like cats. We said no, because it was sexist and disrespectful.
-
I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn't think I should do less than my brothers.
-
Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.
-
In the spirit of Vivian Maier, who worked unaided by any publication or commercial shooting, I set up the Emerging Photographer Fund
-
One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself. This is where creativity begins.
-
I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.
-
[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)
-
I'm kind of a twisted social documentary photographer.
