Photographer Quotes

Well, I'm not going to get into that. I think that those kind of distinctions and lists of titles like "street photographer" are so stupid. I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.

There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers I have no interest in at all.

I began my career in the arts as a model, before adding my hats as an actress, a photographer, a journalist and now, filmmaker. I've seen and experienced it all.

I had been a fashion photographer for over ten years, but I'd always been dissatisfied with what I was doing. It was all about selling people, and I got disheartened by the whole industry.

I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict.

Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer

In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to the reality of the situation.

My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it.

A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work.

When you respect somebody who has talent, whether it's a designer or a photographer, then you don't want to let yourself down - but you also really don't want to let them down.

I'm very lucky that I've worked mainly with two amazing photographers in David Sims and Steven Meisel.

Essentially what you're doing is collaborating with the photographer to create an image that reflects the fashion you're trying to capture and also hold a mirror up to the zeitgeist at the moment.

The mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us.

I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious.

Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.

A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.

I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.

I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.

I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer.

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?

There is a narrative behind every image. I often imagine being able to see the photographer standing behind the camera, or perhaps crouching or running with it.

There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.

[The] arresting of time is photography's unique capacity, and the decision of when to click the shutter is the photographer's chief responsibility.

The pictures are everywhere. If you're open, they will find you.

You can't just turn on when something happens, you have to be turned on all the time. Then things happen.

Be aware of every square millimeter of your frame.

Allow yourself to lose your way.

We have always wanted to find the 'it-ness' of anything we shoot. We want to get as deep into the subject as we can.

You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.

You cannot accurately remember color.

It's not just when you shoot, or what you shot, or where you shoot, it's the combination of the three.

All these factors are only valuable if you're curious. But in any case, the more knowledge you have, the more things are open and available to you.

It was only with the emergence of the Conceptualist approaches of the late 1960s that the opposition between artists using photography and photographers became explicit.

The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.

I was working in a family business-the fur business - and I hated it. I was reading the New York Times want ads, and I saw a photographer's assistant job in Vogue. Things went from there.

In the arts there are many right answers.

The truth is that one is more frequently blessed with ideas while working.

I've learned over the years that when you get a clue to another possibility to follow it through.

All knowledge is self-reflective.

I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.

Teachers don't work in the summer, and photographers don't shoot in in the middle of the day.

Surfaces simultaneously reveal and conceal.

Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.

Photographs are never records of the way things are; they're records of the way things were.

Seeing creates growth.

My mantra is, 'This or something better.'

A good question has many answers.

The best plans evolve.

It takes asking many questions from many perspectives to truly understand something.