Photographer famous quotes
05-15-2025
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I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer.
-- Alfred Eisenstaedt -
All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.
-- Alfred Eisenstaedt -
Wherever there is light, one can photograph.
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
Several people feel I have photographed God. May be.
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
I love going out and it is a bit sad when the photographers stop asking you for your picture.
-- Alice Evans -
The inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or it becomes the solitary cell of the neurotic.
-- Anais Nin -
You have to focus on what you are doing, not just as a photographer, but as a human being.
-- Anders Petersen -
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.
-- Andre Kertesz -
The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.
-- Andre Kertesz -
As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers.
-- Andreas Feininger -
Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer.
-- Andreas Feininger -
I am an artist first and a photographer second.
-- Andres Serrano -
Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.
-- Andy Warhol -
It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.
-- Andy Warhol -
Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button.
-- Andy Warhol -
A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.
-- Andy Warhol -
I like to be the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place. Being the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place is worth it because something interesting always happens.
-- Andy Warhol -
Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.
-- Andy Warhol -
You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter.
-- Annie Parisse -
We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
-- Ansel Adams -
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
-- Ansel Adams -
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
-- Ansel Adams -
A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
-- Ansel Adams -
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
-- Ansel Adams -
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
-- Ansel Adams -
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
-- Ansel Adams -
Notebook. No photographer should be without one!
-- Ansel Adams -
Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
-- Ansel Adams -
It is a rare photographer who can take a detached, cold-blooded view of his work.
-- Arthur Rothstein -
I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.
-- Babette March -
I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
-- Ben Affleck -
I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
-- Berenice Abbott -
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
-- Berenice Abbott -
I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs. Furthermore, a good photographer does not merely document, he probes the subject, he ‘uncovers’ it …
-- Berenice Abbott -
You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I'm the one to do it.
-- Berenice Abbott -
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
-- Berenice Abbott -
I haven't seen too many images that have impressed me!
-- Berenice Abbott -
...the art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about...
-- Berenice Abbott -
I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.
-- Berkeley Breathed -
Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs.
-- Bert Hardy -
Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.
-- Bill Brandt -
The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal to his own interests will he produce a work of distinction.
-- Bill Brandt -
Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others.
-- Bill Brandt -
A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.
-- Brassai -
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
-- Brigitte Bardot -
The celebrity-making machine-photographers, paparazzi, press and stuff like that-can be ruthless.
-- Catherine Keener -
The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.
-- Catherine Opie -
Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and maybe the profession will come after.
-- Christopher Anderson -
I fell into this thing by accident. I was never supposed to be a photographer.
-- Christopher Anderson -
It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.
-- Chuck Close -
I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
-- Chuck Close -
There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed, and a high correlation between left-handedness and learning disabilities.
-- Chuck Close -
The photographer in my head says: Give me peace. Flash. Give me release. Flash.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.
-- Cindy Sherman -
My ideas are not developed before I actually do the pieces.
-- Cindy Sherman -
One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.
-- Cindy Sherman -
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 -
The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism.
-- Cornell Capa -
I liked the idea of being a photographer, just that you take this one picture of this one thing that'll never happen again - it's a bit weird when you think about it.
-- Courtney Barnett -
In the spirit of Vivian Maier, who worked unaided by any publication or commercial shooting, I set up the Emerging Photographer Fund
-- David Alan Harvey -
Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
-- David Bailey -
These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command--positi on and timing--all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them
-- David Hurn -
You are not a photographer because you are interested in photography.
-- David Hurn -
I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject at the time the pictures were made. That's all that any photographer can claim. I do not know any great photographer who would presume otherwise.
-- David Hurn -
Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.
-- David LaChapelle -
I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.
-- David LaChapelle -
For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.
-- Diane Arbus -
The camera is cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even.
-- Diane Arbus -
I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.
-- Diane Arbus -
I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely heard of them.
-- Diane Arbus -
The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
-- Diane Arbus -
...I would never choose a subject for what it means to me. I choose a subject and then what I feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold.
-- Diane Arbus -
It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
-- Dorothea Lange -
Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
-- Dorothea Lange -
I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
-- Dorothea Lange -
I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
-- Duane Michals -
The wandering photographer sees the same show that everyone else sees. He, however, stops to watch it.
-- Edouard Boubat -
No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.
-- Edward Steichen -
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.
-- Edward Weston -
Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply as they have been influenced, maybe more. Anyway painters don't have a copyright on M. A. We were all born in the same upheaval.
-- Edward Weston -
I find myself every so often looking at my ground glass as though the unrecorded image might escape me!
-- Edward Weston -
Most photographers work best alone, myself included.
-- Elliott Erwitt -
You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.
-- Elliott Erwitt
