Photographer Quotes

I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.

I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.

Photographers, like kids, should be seen and not heard.

A few photographers make a killing; the rest can't make a living.

Words of wisdom for every photographer: 'Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking'. So said Goethe.

True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists.

Discussions allow photographers to shuffle their prejudices

Why do photographers photograph? To make unreality visible.

I talk a lot about photography. It's cheap becuase my supply always exceeds demand.

There's a rapport that any photographer is going to have with his subject matter. And if you don't have a rapport, you're going to find the task of photographing it difficult.

The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.

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

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.

We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers.

Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.

Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation.

The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.

The photographer in my head says: Give me peace. Flash. Give me release. Flash.

I never set out to be a photographer.

Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times?

As a model you have to convey something with one look - and actors will have a scene and they can sort of do it, but models have to convey what photographers want. It's a bit of an art.

I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera.

You are not a photographer because you are interested in photography.

I think of myself as a reportage photographer. I like the word. It implies a personal account of an observed event with connotations of subjectivity but honesty. It is eye-witness photography.

...one day I was speculating on how I would like to look back on life and I decided I wanted to feel that I was a photographer rather than a teacher. As simple as that.

You just do what you love, and then a style happens later on.

I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.

I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.

I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.

I never want people to be repulsed with my pictures; I always want to attract people.

I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.

Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be seen.

Photographers aren't artists, for goodness sake.

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.

I find myself every so often looking at my ground glass as though the unrecorded image might escape me!

Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?

My 'work' is about seeing not about ideas.

My responsibility as a photographer, to my subjects, is to know what's going to happen with my images.

Only a vision - that is what one must have.

The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances...a tiny relationship - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture.

Don't park... Arrival is the death of inspiration.

A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contrived images that usually stem from this genre.

For me, the best part is people who watch the movie and tell me it inspired them to collaborate with their friend who's a photographer or filmmaker.

In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation.

If I could find them (assemblages) in nature I would photograph them. I make them because through photography I have a knowledge of things that can't be found.

Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities.

Thirty-six satisfactory exposures on a roll means a photographer is not trying anything new

I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.

I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.