Photographer Quotes
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I'm a terrible photographer.I'm not being modest. My photos really are crap. But in a way, the more the photo is crap, the better to paint from.
Chantal Joffe -
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
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The thing itself is never just out there in the world waiting to be framed by the photographer's Leica; rather, it is something dynamically produced in the act of representation and reception and already subject to the grids of meaning imposed on it by culture, history, language, and so forth.
Abigail Solomon-Godeau -
One of my basic feelings is that the mind, and the heart alike, of the photographer must be dedicated to the glory, the magic, and the mystery of light. The mystery of time, the magic of light, the enigma of reality - and their interrelationships - are my constant themes and preoccupations.
Clarence John Laughlin -
You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.
Eve Arnold -
One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family; I was to be a photographer of peace.
Cornell Capa -
I never thought I would become a photographer.
Rene Burri -
Perhaps the street photographer has been replaced by the security camera.
Nicole Miller
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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 -
There’s no shooting with the law of probabilities, otherwise you should just be a filmmaker and just point the camera and trigger. That’s called making film. If you’re a photographer, it’s about waiting for those decisive and clear moments.
Jonathan Mannion -
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
Minor White -
People think: 'If this photographer's looking like a big jerk-off, maybe it's okay if I do.' I like to catch my subjects off balance a bit.
Mick Rock -
A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.
Norman Parkinson -
At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer Ansel Adams has been visionary in his efforts to preserve this country's wild and scenic areas, both in film and on Earth. Drawn to the beauty of nature's monuments, he is regarded by environmentalists as a monument himself, and by photographers as a national institution. It is through his foresight and fortitude that so much of America has been saved for future Americans.
Ansel Adams
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It’s a very weird thing being a photographer.
Danny Lyon -
It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera
Sebastiao Salgado -
One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
Ansel Adams -
The celebrity-making machine-photographers, paparazzi, press and stuff like that-can be ruthless.
Catherine Keener -
It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the object as a stepping stone to a realm of meaning completely beyond itself.
Clarence John Laughlin -
Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer is like a cloud, pushed all around, always dependent on the exterior world. That's what I sometimes feel as a pain and an error.
Edouard Boubat
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Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.
Ansel Adams -
Searching is everything - going beyond what you know. And the test of the search is really in the things themselves, the things you seek to understand. What is important is not what you think about them, but how they enlarge you.
Wynn Bullock -
Just because I use the photographic medium, that doesn't mean I'm a photographer.
Nikki S. Lee -
If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.
Eve Arnold