Top Photographer Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Photographer quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Minor White
One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.
- Minor White
Collection: Photographer
Image of Bill Brandt
The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal to his own interests will he produce a work of distinction.
- Bill Brandt
Collection: Photographer
Image of Stephen Shore
I do what feels natural, but I can't say I haven't thought about it.
- Stephen Shore
Collection: Photographer
Image of Rene Burri
I never thought I would become a photographer.
- Rene Burri
Collection: Photographer
Image of Weegee
I am a perfectionist. When I take a picture...it's gotta be good.
- Weegee
Collection: Photographer
Image of Paul Caponigro
The influence of mystery is the greatest influence.
- Paul Caponigro
Collection: Photographer
Image of Brassai
It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have always felt strongly that this was the photographer's true vocation.
- Brassai
Collection: Photographer
Image of John Szarkowski
A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.
- John Szarkowski
Collection: Photographer
Image of William Eggleston
You can take a good picture of anything. A bad one, too.
- William Eggleston
Collection: Photographer
Image of William Eggleston
There is no particular reason to search for meaning.
- William Eggleston
Collection: Photographer
Image of Arthur Rothstein
...a photographer must be aware of and concerned about the words that accompany a picture. These words should be considered as carefully as the lighting, exposure and composition of the photograph.
- Arthur Rothstein
Collection: Photographer
Image of Jelena Jankovic
Some of the angles that photographers get on court are not always flattering.
- Jelena Jankovic
Collection: Photographer
Image of Christian Boltanski
I never take photographs myself. I don’t feel like a photographer, more like a recycler
- Christian Boltanski
Collection: Photographer
Image of Christopher Anderson
I fell into this thing by accident. I was never supposed to be a photographer.
- Christopher Anderson
Collection: Photographer
Image of Albert Watson
Basically I'm always looking for things. Any good photographer should always be looking for something, you know.
- Albert Watson
Collection: Photographer
Image of Alexey Brodovitch
Astonish me! (Instruction to photographers)
- Alexey Brodovitch
Collection: Photographer
Image of John Paul Caponigro
Surfaces simultaneously reveal and conceal.
- John Paul Caponigro
Collection: Photographer
Image of John Paul Caponigro
Don't ask 'Should I ...?'. Instead, 'Ask what happens if I ...?'
- John Paul Caponigro
Collection: Photographer
Image of Robert Adam
If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriately scaled subject for reshaping is ourselves.
- Robert Adam
Collection: Photographer
Image of Elliott Erwitt
If you're not a curious person, you're certainly not going to be a good photographer.
- Elliott Erwitt
Collection: Photographer
Image of Nicole Miller
Perhaps the street photographer has been replaced by the security camera.
- Nicole Miller
Collection: Photographer
Image of Diane Arbus
Take pictures of what you fear.
- Diane Arbus
Collection: Photographer
Image of Jan Phillips
We photographers are poets in the language of symbols.
- Jan Phillips
Collection: Photographer
Image of Ray Metzker
Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent.
- Ray Metzker
Collection: Photographer
Image of Vilem Flusser
Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols.
- Vilem Flusser
Collection: Photographer
Image of Shomei Tomatsu
If I had seven lives, I'd be a photographer in every one.
- Shomei Tomatsu
Collection: Photographer
Image of Malick Sidibe
I wanted to be the photographer of happiness.
- Malick Sidibe
Collection: Photographer
Image of Danny Lyon
It’s a very weird thing being a photographer.
- Danny Lyon
Collection: Photographer
Image of Stephen Sondheim
Only capitalists get photographers.
- Stephen Sondheim
Collection: Photographer
Image of John Berger
A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory. These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
- John Berger
Collection: Photographer
Image of Tupac Shakur
If a picture is worth a thousand words, photographers are worth a million.
- Tupac Shakur
Collection: Photographer
Image of Andy Warhol
Beauty is a sign of intelligence.
- Andy Warhol
Collection: Photographer
Image of Susan Sontag
Photographers are always imposing
- Susan Sontag
Collection: Photographer
Image of Berenice Abbott
I haven't seen too many images that have impressed me!
- Berenice Abbott
Collection: Photographer
Image of Andy Warhol
Success is when the checks don’t bounce.
- Andy Warhol
Collection: Photographer
Image of W. Eugene Smith
My pictures are complex and so am I.
- W. Eugene Smith
Collection: Photographer
Image of Sally Mann
When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.
- Sally Mann
Collection: Photographer
Image of Henri Cartier-Bresson
I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Collection: Photographer
Image of Henri Cartier-Bresson
In every photographer there is something of a stroller.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Collection: Photographer
Image of Sam Abell
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.
- Sam Abell
Collection: Photographer
Image of Garry Winogrand
I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.
- Garry Winogrand
Collection: Photographer
Image of Jean Cocteau
A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
- Jean Cocteau
Collection: Photographer
Image of John Paul Caponigro
The best plans evolve.
- John Paul Caponigro
Collection: Photographer
Image of John Paul Caponigro
My mantra is, 'This or something better.'
- John Paul Caponigro
Collection: Photographer
Image of John Paul Caponigro
Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have.
- John Paul Caponigro
Collection: Photographer
Image of Elliott Erwitt
I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.
- Elliott Erwitt
Collection: Photographer
Image of Marc Jacobs
A lot of models achieve that kind of iconic position by working primarily with one photographer.
- Marc Jacobs
Collection: Photographer
Image of Ansel Adams
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
- Ansel Adams
Collection: Photographer
Image of Dorothea Lange
Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
- Dorothea Lange
Collection: Photographer
Image of Robert Adams
The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.
- Robert Adams
Collection: Photographer