Photographer Quotes

For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.

One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch the birdie! is essentially a stage direction.

We know photographers make frames, but we deeply believe they can also create frameworks.

Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion is present, the result is almost invariably affirmative.

I am a perfectionist. When I take a picture...it's gotta be good.

We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.

I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer.

It is a rare photographer who can take a detached, cold-blooded view of his work.

Predators and prey always coexist. That's why we have galleries as well as photographers.

It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the object as a stepping stone to a realm of meaning completely beyond itself.

No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.

If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.

We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted.

The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.

I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.

To be a good hairdresser, you have to understand what the vision is of the designer or the photographer and then sort of add your thing.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.

We photographers are poets in the language of symbols.

I love when pictures ask questions or make others ask questions.

Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.

Photography is truth.

The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.

I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us.

A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself.

I've had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or for film posters.

Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography.

It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they originate in urges that are rarely satisfied with single images.

It is necessary to like loneliness to be photographer

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.

I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

It's unarguable to say that every one of us has been moved by the beauty of what I have called snapshots, but for photographers they are charms and proverbs, and like lightening or wild strawberries.

... to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs.

Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.)

Photography is my passion.

The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)

The inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or it becomes the solitary cell of the neurotic.

I can't talk about my style. It us kind of difficult for me. I don't like styles. I only like taking photos and expressing myself through them.

And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.

If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.

When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.

A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.

In conclusion, the idea of direction on the part of the photographer has its greatest value when its processes are least discernible to the spectator.

The art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about.

Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.

Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.

I'm kind of a twisted social documentary photographer.

It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.