Photographer Quotes

I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.

My name is Weegee. I'm the world's greatest photographer.

The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment

Photography is a language more universal than words.

So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so disciplined. The photographer works with both his eyes and his mind.

Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.

My ideas are not developed before I actually do the pieces.

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

You are responsible for every part of your image, even the parts you’re not interested in.

I think if you don't love people and aren't fascinated by them, you'll never succeed as a portrait photographer, because your pictures will look cold.

The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.

When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and hairdresser I've ever worked with.

Fall in love. Every day. With everything. With life. If you can fall in love, you can be a photographer. I think that is absolutely essential.

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

Notebook. No photographer should be without one!

I didn't want to be a woman photographer. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera.

A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.

We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to others.

[To a photographer who said, 'Look this way, love':] I am not your 'love.' I am Your Royal Highness!

Basically I'm always looking for things. Any good photographer should always be looking for something, you know.

I want to be the toughest photographer in the world.

We should think of a photographer as a Samurai who makes rituals, moves and gestures in order to develop his techniques and his instinct.

Always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.

The photographer must be absorbent - like a blotter, allow himself to be permeated by the poetic moment... His technique should be like an animal function... he should act automatically.

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. (meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he, the photographer, meets the reality he wishes to capture.

If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.

To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.

Beauty can be seen in all things.

The photographer is filled with doubt. Nothing will soothe him.

Herein lies the main objective of portraiture and also its main difficulty. The photographer probes for the innermost. The lens sees only the surface... .

I never take photographs myself. I don’t feel like a photographer, more like a recycler

When you're a fashion photographer, you must inspire a dream.

A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.

I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons.

Success is when the checks don’t bounce.

I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further than appreciating a picture that is a rectangle with an object in the middle of it, which they can identify.

We're responsible for everything that's included in the frame. We're also responsible for what's not included in the frame. We're responsible for the way we frame the world.

Available light is any damn light that is available!

Making any statement of your feelings is risky. It's just like making pictures.

I am an expressionist and by that I mean that I'm not a photographer or a writer or a painter or a tap dancer, but rather someone who expresses himself according to his needs.

I became a photographer in order to be a war photographer, and a photographer involved in what I thought were critical social issues. From the very beginning this was my goal.

One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family; I was to be a photographer of peace.

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

I like boring things.

The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is what the making of a portrait is all about.