Photographer Quotes

• ...insight, vision, moments of revelation. During those rare moments something overtakes the man and he becomes the tool of a greater Force; the servant of, willing or unwilling depending on his degree of awakeness. The photograph, then, is a message more than a mirror, and the mans a messenger who happens to be a photographer.

  

  Minor White
  • Moments
  • Revelations
  • Unwilling

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

  

  Ara Guler
  • People
  • Living
  • Photographer

• 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'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

• 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

• The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Experience
  • Nature
  • Artist

• 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

• The celebrity-making machine-photographers, paparazzi, press and stuff like that-can be ruthless.

  

  Catherine Keener
  • Stuff
  • Machines
  • Presses

• I got a camera when I was nine years old and it wasn't until I was a model that I realized you could be a photographer for a job.

  

  Nigel Barker
  • Jobs
  • Cameras
  • Models

• Art is something important, but the history of humanity is more important, and that is what press photographers record. We are the eyes of the world. We see on behalf of other people.

  

  Ara Guler
  • World
  • Eyes
  • Humanity

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Subcomandante Marcos
  • Should
  • Photography
  • Clear

• You become technically proficient whether you want to or not, the more you take pictures.

  

  William Eggleston
  • Want
  • Photographer

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Balance
  • Subjects

• As a photographer, knowing what an artist is going to do at a certain point in a song, you can prepare for it and get that crazy Kanye “lean forward arm back and to the sky” signature move.

  

  Jonathan Mannion
  • Artist
  • Move
  • Prepare

• Just because I use the photographic medium, that doesn't mean I'm a photographer.

  

  Nikki S. Lee
  • Use
  • Photographer
  • Medium

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

  

  Danny Lyon
  • Photographer

• There are no photographs while I'm reloading .

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Photography
  • Photograph
  • Reloading

• I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)

  

  Danny Lyon
  • Order
  • Students
  • Bike

• It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Important
  • Cameras
  • Photographer

• 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
  • Terrible
  • Paint
  • Modest

• I’m a photographer; I’m not a social worker. I’m a black dude and I will do the kind of work I want to do. I know what it’s like to be a black guy.

  

  Barron Claiborne
  • Want
  • Black
  • Photographer

• The photographer discovers himself/herself being photographed and we can guess he is uncomfortable. Unsuccessfully he/she tries to recompose his posture and to look like a photographer taking photos. But no, he is and continues to be a spectator. The momentous fact of being photographed leads him to becoming an actor. And, as always, actors must assume a role, which is only an elegant way of avoiding to say they must choose sides, choose a faction, take an option.

  

  Subcomandante Marcos
  • Trying
  • Actors
  • Assuming

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