Photographer Quotes

It's my obligation to take out all the 'wrong' pictures.

It's a lot easier to take pictures if you always have the camera with you.

You have to learn not only from your failures. You must also learn from your successes.

Forget what it was. Look at what it is.

Never put lettering in your photos unless you want it read.

When we are given gifts, we must be quick and able to accept them.

Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who’s looking at it.

If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked.

The problem suggests the solution.

There are rules about perception, but not about photography.

Well, I talk about one moment in the book, but I don't know if that's my moment of discovery. It was a moment. In the book, I talk about how I started shooting, how I became a photographer.

The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography.

It's one thing to make a beautiful thing; it's another thing to make a living thing.

A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking.

Don't ask 'Should I ...?'. Instead, 'Ask what happens if I ...?'

I guess I'm adaptable. You know, I turn up at work and [photographers] can kind of do what they want with me, really.

If I came out a photographer it's because I knew about painting, composition, and the handling of light.

As a photographer you have to do things you don't want to.

We don't have only two eyes; we have hundreds of wonderful eyes, because there are hundreds of wonderful photographers!

Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent.

I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues.

People say to me, "Who's your favorite kind of photographer?" Or "Who would be your favorite photographer to have in a workshop?" And I always say, "My Dad."

On my YouTube channel, I put up 3-4 videos a week, and I spend a lot of money to maintain that content. When I travel, I travel with a videographer and a photographer no matter what.

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know. "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said. "She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.

A photographer doesn't just copy reality, but communicates to others what he or she experiences.

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

I'd like to briefly state the accomplishment that we expect from a photographer. He must make the person being photographed forget that he has eaten from the tree of knowledge.

My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.

Several people feel I have photographed God. May be.

I love going out and it is a bit sad when the photographers stop asking you for your picture.

I am an artist first and a photographer second.

Pop art is for everyone.

Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.

There is a myth that the portrait photographer is supposed to make the subject relax, and that's the real person. But I'm interested in whatever is going on. And I'm not that comfortable myself.

I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.

If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter.

Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.

The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.

Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.

...a photographer must be aware of and concerned about the words that accompany a picture. These words should be considered as carefully as the lighting, exposure and composition of the photograph.

I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

All the photographers were trying to just get me off, which was hilarious. But it was very, very amusing.

I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.

I'm not a nice girl. I'm a photographer.

Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world - good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.

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.

Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer.

I haven't seen too many images that have impressed me!