Photographer Quotes

I wanted to show the thing that had to be corrected: I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated.

The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness.

Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs.

Think like a photographer. Look at every vignette in your home like it's being shot for a shelter magazine and style accordingly.

I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself.

There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars.

Photography is just light remembering itself.

You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.

The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them.

A photographer's reality is what he or she wants to show.

I was making photographs of the world long before I was a photographer.

Photographers can create moments that will never happen again but last a lifetime.

My mom was a photographer and whenever they needed a baby for a modelling job, she'd stick me in front of the camera. That's how it started.

I got a camera when I was nine years old and it wasn't until I was a model that I realized you could be a photographer for a job.

Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.

Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.

A camera exposes more than just an image. It also exposes the photographer.

Take pictures of what you fear.

I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer.

We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)

Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.

For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers.

Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.

There is no particular reason to search for meaning.

Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.

To become a photographer leave your house first.

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

Working myself into a position of total versatility, so that I can do anything I want to do at the time I want to do it. Whether I do it or not is another question.

It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject.

For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult, but after that things get better.

If you want to be a photographer, you have to photograph.

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.

If I already have a vision, my work is almost done. The rest is a technical problem.

Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or by watching someone do it.

A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.

A creative photographer is one who either captures mystery or reveals things, everything else is useless

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

I started being a photographer because I liked fashion. I liked the idea of dressing up and changing my look. I got earrings, dyed my hair. I would dress like a fashion photo.

The immortal photographers will be straightforward photographers, those who do not rely on tricks or special techniques.

Photography just gets us out of the house.

You can take a good picture of anything. A bad one, too.

The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I’ve lost control of it.

The head of the photographer is more important than his camera

Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.