Photographer Quotes

Take your camera off automatic. You are the photographer.

I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.

When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.

I like boring things.

If you look very intensely and slowly things will happen that you never dreamed of before.

Light makes photography. Embrace light.

A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you're not feeling very sexy.

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

I try not to tell students where to shoot, when to shoot, or what to shoot. I feel finding the picture is the most important part of being a photographer. The actual shooting is of lesser importance.

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.

It is the photographer's decision at the two levels of seeing the picture - when it is shot and when it is chosen and printed that determines his personal style.

The goal for the photographer is be visually articulate.

I see no reason for recording the obvious.

I'm a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my mind.

I do not document anything, I give an interpretation.

It's always around. You just don't see it.

It's not how a photographer looks at the world that is important. It's their intimate relationship with it.

I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.

Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture.

If I'd had the nerve, I'd have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn't, I became a photographer.

I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight.

Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.

If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy.

To me, pictures are like blintzes - ya gotta get 'em while they're hot.

The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.

I think that the photos that we like were made when the photographer knew how to disappear. If there were a secret, certainly that would be it.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.

I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.

If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning

And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.

Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.

The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism.

A person cannot learn to be a photographer. He can only cultivate what he already has. I try to make people aware that they have something very precious to cultivate.

Woman has been the target of much that is sordid and cheap, especially in photography. To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the image of woman, has been my mission.

When you're modeling you're actually acting for the camera and the photographer. It's more fun, too because there are no lines to memorize.

I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.

I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the abs on their way. The photographer didn't look at my face once. I was humiliated.

The most valuable things in a life are a man's memories. And they are priceless.

I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.

The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.

I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it.

I would strongly encourage anybody embarking on photography as a career to embrace and enjoy the whole process. Being a photographer can be a wonderful way to experience the world.

If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.

What I did, anybody can do.

Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.

One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.

A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

Ill always be an amateur photographer.

I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.