Photographer Quotes

• My uncle was a photographer for 'The Irish Times.'

  

  Róisín Murphy
  • Irish
  • Uncle
  • Photographer

• Only capitalists get photographers.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Photographer
  • Capitalist

• I believe it is the photographer's function to reveal that which is concealed, even if it be repugnant to the majority, not merely to record what we see around us.

  

  Arthur Tress
  • Record
  • Photographer
  • Concealed

• I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.

  

  Bill Eppridge
  • Picture
  • Photographer

• A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.

  

  Ernst Haas
  • Art
  • Photography
  • Understood

• When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it, all of a sudden we discover something that we start seeing. I like this confusion.

  

  Saul Leiter
  • Taken
  • Seeing
  • Confusion

• If you want to be a photographer, particularly a photojournalist , you want to learn about the world. You want to learn about yourself. And you want to find things that you genuinely care about, because that will be the source of your greatest work.

  

  Ed Kashi
  • Work
  • Care
  • Learn

• The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge of his picture is just as interesting as the middle, one can only guess at the existence of a whole, and the view presented seems chosen by chance.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Interesting
  • Artist
  • Chance

• I must admit that I am not a member of the ugly school. I have a great regard for certain notions of beauty even though to some it is an old fashioned idea. Some photographers think that by taking pictures of human misery, they are addressing a serious problem. I do not think that misery is more profound than happiness.

  

  Saul Leiter
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Serious

• I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious to all that photographers whose images possess character and quality have attained them only by continued practice and total dedication to the medium.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Character
  • Practice
  • Response

• It’s a very weird thing being a photographer.

  

  Danny Lyon
  • Photographer

• In conclusion, the idea of direction on the part of the photographer has its greatest value when its processes are least discernible to the spectator.

  

  Arthur Rothstein
  • Direction
  • Photographer
  • Processes

• I chose to be a photographer twenty-two years ago, but I don't know that I'd make that choice again. Back in the early eighties, I still thought I was doing okay, trying to order and shape the world with my camera. Now that I know a bit more about living and dying, about our planet and its complex problems, I'm a lot less comfortable with my images of people. Still, I haven't a clue what else to do.

  

  Eugene Richards
  • Problem
  • Choice
  • Camera

• I seem to walk in the world as two people. The normal everyday-me is as preoccupied, unobservant and oblivious to visual clues as I ever was. Then there is the photographer-me, the one who has a camera in hand and a specific project in mind, and then the world suddenly jumps to life with potential pictures, as if a switch had been thrown in my brain and a different person is looking out of the same eyes.

  

  Bill Jay
  • Mind
  • Eyes
  • Camera

• No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

  

  Minor White
  • Enough
  • Matter
  • Photographer

• Photographer Julian Wasser had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great idea that it was just like the best idea I'd ever heard in my life. It was like a great idea. I mean, it was - Not only was it vengeance, it was art, and it was, like, a great idea. And even if it didn't get any vengeance, it would still turn out okay with me because, you know, I would be sort of immortalized.

  

  Eve Babitz
  • Art
  • My Life
  • Great Idea

• For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers.

  

  Subcomandante Marcos
  • Should
  • Photography
  • Clear

• I never thought I would become a photographer.

  

  Rene Burri
  • Never
  • Become
  • Photographer

• There are no photographs while I'm reloading .

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Photography
  • Photograph
  • Reloading

• I am not actually a landscape photographer. I am a photographer of living breathing people, of workers.

  

  Ara Guler
  • People
  • Living
  • Photographer

• Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to keep up with moving targets, and sensitivity and skill to get the pictures while keeping out of the performers' eyeline so as not to break their concentration.

  

  Eve Arnold
  • Moving
  • Break
  • Musician

• You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.

  

  Eve Arnold
  • Musician
  • Photographer

• I'm a big fan of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the French photographer who had that whole "decisive moment" approach to taking pictures, of having multiple elements line up within the frame.

  

  Nick Zinner
  • Moments
  • Approach
  • Cartier

• A photographer is a witness. He has a moral duty. Every picture must be true and honest. I believe a photographer's strength is his ability to accurately record reality. There are photographers who think they are lucky if they find unusual or special subject. But it is never the subject that is so marvelous. It is how alive and real the photographer can make it.

  

  Edouard Boubat
  • Real
  • I Believe
  • Duty

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