Photographer Quotes

How do we know what we know? Is seeing believing? Is believing seeing?

Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.

We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing?

Listen carefully. The way(s) we speak about things is revealing.

Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have.

Looking and seeing are two different things.

The frame frames a frame of mind.

I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings.

As Estelle Jussim wrote, it is almost impossible for a single photograph to state both the problem and the solution.

In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he thinks will make the pictures.

If I am dissatisfied, it's simply because good photos are few and far between. A good photo is a miracle.

What matters most to me is to take photographs; to continue taking them and not to repeat myself. To go further, to go as far as I can.

Sometimes I photograph without looking through the viewfinder. I have mastered that well enough, it is almost as if I were looking through it.

Find the one thing you’re good at and FOCUS on it.

The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me.

I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing.

I have a really hard time stepping out of a limousine and confronting a sh*tload of photographers who are all screaming at you, because it's like saying, 'yeah, yeah, here I am!'

Like most photographers, I try to capture a moment in my work.

I don't care about fashion at all. And I know it's kind of a dodgy thing to be a fashion photographer, a kind of pathetic occupation, but I like it, even though I question it.

There's this way that photography is always about going out searching. I'm not the kind of a photographer who can photograph my home.

Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer

In order to be a successful Photographer, you must possess both Vision and Focus neither of which have anything to do with your eyes

Every fashion photographer is completely different; the fact that they are so different is what makes it fun. You don't want to get bored.

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

That's true, because I'm a photographer now.

I started modeling at 14. It's simple. You respond to what the photographer wants and wear other people's ideas. I got bored with it, though, so I went to university.

I know that sometimes the chemistry just isn't there between the model, photographer, hair and make-up. It's nobody's fault and you just have to do better next time.

I don't know who said 'pictures don't lie.' It couldn't have been a photographer.

I was to be a photographer and that was that. It did everything for me. I love people. I needed the camera more than ever I would have believed.

I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

A lot of models achieve that kind of iconic position by working primarily with one photographer.

Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst.

When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved to have done something that actually helped people and changed their lives.

Thoughtfulness begins with seeing. My job as a photographer is to make that seeing easier. What we appreciate, what fascinates us, we will strive to preserve.

I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.

If you look at the greatest models, it was because they were muses to photographers. They collaborated with the artist and they created the kind of images that become iconic.

As a landscape photographer we should be open to possibilities, for one thing often leads to another.

I'm a big fan of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the French photographer who had that whole "decisive moment" approach to taking pictures, of having multiple elements line up within the frame.

Perhaps the street photographer has been replaced by the security camera.

Just because I use the photographic medium, that doesn't mean I'm a photographer.

Photographers are always voyeuristic, and they do sort of live vicariously. I think every artist does.

My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills about composition, light, colour, the formal attributes of images.

There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.

I use my music to tune myself.

Can you keep your balance? Can you see what and where you are at any given moment?

Seek freedom within action.

All that I have achieved are these dreams locked in silver.

To be a photographer you must have something to say about the world.