Greatest Photographers Quotes

#1. Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back ... ready to be put in the garbage.

Valentino Garavani

#2. I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is a consummate professional, but he's also an 'amateur' in the pure sense of the word.

John Sexton

#3. Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.

Robert Adams

#4. I told Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson, then age 105, that she was the only person over 80 who I'd ever met who never referred to her physical infirmities or health problems. To which she replied, I have my difficulties; I do not rejoice in them.

Patricia Mulcahy

#5. I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.

James Surowiecki

#6. When you look in the eyes of grace, when you meet grace, when you embrace grace, when you see the nail prints in grace's hands and the fire in his eyes, when you feel his relentless love for you - it will not motivate you to sin. It will motivate you to righteousness.

Judah Smith

#7. I've often stopped working for long periods.

Carl Andre

#8. It was an alien place, as much inhuman as it was ungodly. There was no life in this place. It was a different world altogether.
This world was dead.

Angelo Tsanatelis

#9. To love what you do. You must do what you love.

E'yen A. Gardner

#10. Peace without energy may be only stagnation; and energy without peace may be but a form of panic.

W. Graham Scroggie

#11. If you look at the greatest models, it was because they were muses to photographers. They collaborated with the artist and they created the kind of images that become iconic.

Michael Flutie

#12. Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.

Martin Parr

#13. My advice for climbers or photographers is to really tune into your own passions and not just what other people are doing or aren't doing. Figure out what works for you, what turns you on, what gives you the greatest amount of energy and feeling of satisfaction.

Galen Rowell