Photographer Quotes

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

I admire photographers that don't need a destination. In some ways, street photography is like that. There's a quality of wanderlust for sure in my work, but I need a destination.

Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button.

One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.

The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form.

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.

Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese.

I do go very fast. I think if I don't go fast it's going to be boring. That's what photographers need to do.

I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

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

Photographer's advice: Stand in the right place.

...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.

When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.

My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature.

You have to devote yourself totally to be successful at it.

I'm often uncomfortable taking pictures, especially if people are grieving, or hurt, or hungry. At such times I have to remind myself that I'm a photographer and that this is my job.

Art accepts what it finds.

Art and accident are one.

There are no photographs while I'm reloading .

The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough?

They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important.

[The photographer's task] is to describe the existing light... Chances are, if you believe the light, you're going to believe that the things photographed existed in the world.

When a photographer or a person sees your beauty, your inner beauty, it makes you feel special like, "Wow, someone saw that within me."

Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!

Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.

If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.

Especially when you are advertising a product, I talk to the photographer and we create a character - it always gives you more freedom because it makes it less about yourself.

I would always cast Meryl Streep for everything. I would do with something inspired by the work of Guy Bourdin, my favorite photographer.

I fell in love with traveling and thought being a photographer would be an interesting way to travel and make a living.

The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.

As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.

I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.

It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.

I do what feels natural, but I can't say I haven't thought about it.

Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past.

Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a truth.

Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols.

My pictures are complex and so am I.

What we must demand from the photographer is the ability to put such a caption beneath his picture as will rescue it from the ravages of modishness and confer upon it a revolutionary use value.

What a photograph shows us is how a particular thing could be seen, or could be made to look - at a specific moment, in a specific context, by a specific photographer employing specific tools.

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.

Photographers don't need to be aggressive. Some are. Henry Benson is aggressive - but then he's from Fleet Street. If you can talk to people, you don't need to push people around.

If you can imagine photography in the guise of a woman and you’d ask her what she thought of Stieglitz, she’d say: He always treated me like a gentleman.

Publicity is like eating peanuts. Once you start you can’t stop.

The camera cannot, but the photographer can.

You don’t take pictures, the good ones happen to you.

Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been?

The only way to understand something is to be confronted by something that is difficult to understand.

Although the photographer and the art thief were close friends, neither had ever taken the other's picture.

In every photographer there is something of a stroller.