Amateur Photographer Quotes

#1. My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.

Sam Abell

#2. I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

Gaspard Ulliel

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

Alfred Stieglitz

#4. Without social media, I'd probably just be a quirky, amateur photographer with a hard drive full of photos. I'd be cold calling respected publications, begging for a feature.

Brandon Stanton

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

Elliott Erwitt

#6. I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.

Elliot Erwitt

#7. I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.

Ben Affleck

#8. I'll always be an amateur photographer.

Elliott Erwitt

#9. A great photographer show off his talent & awards on facebook.
An amateur photographer show off his work and skill on facebook.
A foolgrapher show off his camera and how he holds it, on facebook.

Junior Ming

#10. I was an amateur - I am an amateur - and I intend to stay an amateur. To me an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs.

Erwin Blumenfeld

#11. I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write - with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#12. For each ray of light, there's a stroke of dark,
For each possibility, one has gone.
For each action, a reaction.
Ever in balance, the world spins on.

Kiki Sullivan

#13. Because I was raised in a Christian culture I never considered myself to be a totally free human being.

James Baldwin

#14. And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.

Michel De Montaigne

#15. As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish ... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers.

Andreas Feininger

#16. We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers.

Charlotte Cotton

#17. This idea fascinates me. The idea that a few seconds of watching a photographer in action can tell you his/her status in the medium. And it's true. If you watch a photographer of merit working an event he/she does not look like an amateur ...

David Hurn

#18. In the draft plan, we're looking at recycling 20 percent of our garbage by 2010.

Michael E. Mann

#19. It [ non-Euclidean geometry ] would be ranked among the most famous achievements of the entire [nineteenth] century, but up to 1860 the interest was rather slight.

Ivor Grattan-Guinness

#20. We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty.

Peter Pace

#21. We feel more emotion ... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer, because his domain partakes of art, and the intent of the souvenir-object remains at the lower level of personal history.

Chris Marker