Photographer Quotes
I'm always looking for perfection. Every photographer, in one way or another, if he's serious, is. He ain't ever going to get it. But hope springs eternal.
I think I have been able to eliminate the idea of a third person: the Intruding Photographer.
Photographers undervalue the use of a wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography.
Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.
...the questions a photographer raises may be more profound than the answers the medium permits.
Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.
Almost all photographers have incurred large expenses in the pursuit of tiny audiences, finding that the wonder they'd hoped to share is something few want to receive.
The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.
The thing about being a photographer that's so cool is that you get to participate, but you also get to disappear. The camera is in front of your face all the time.
I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
It's more difficult now, to be a Geographic photographer, than it was when I came along. And it wasn't easy at that time.
My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.
My least favorite photographer to have would be myself. Someone who wanted a career at National Geographic. Because it's almost mathematically impossible to achieve that.
There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
I don't think of myself as a photographer. I've engaged questions regarding photography's role in culture... but it is an engagement with a problem rather than a medium.
It's quite difficult to write about photography as a photographer. A lot of better photographers than me have declined to do it.
The photographer's intentions do not determine the meaning of a photograph, which will have its own career, blown by the whims and loyalties of the diverse communities that have use for it.
As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art.
Cameras are like dogs, but dumb, and toward quarry, even more faithful. They point, they render, and defy the photographer who hopes.
I'm just impressed when someone can capture all the crazy beauty of the light that is all around us. It's amazing to me. I don't consider myself a photographer, but I really want to get into it.
It would drive the photographers crazy because I would giggle and tell jokes. I was gregarious, and looking back, I realize I had a captive audience.
I don't know the American photographers as well, but I admit I love Ansel Adams. His landscapes are so crisp.
Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.
Photoshop and Lightroom help me transform my photos into what my heart felt, but my camera couldn't quite capture!
The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.
A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably under a restraining order.
As soon as I laid eyes on him, it all came flooding back, all the reasons why I loved him, all the reasons why I hadn't been able to let him go.
New York is a glorious place for clearing your head and finding inspiration. Every time you step outside, you live a dozen lives.