I Am Not A Good Photographer Quotes

#1. If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

Annie Lennox

#2. It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera

Sebastiao Salgado

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

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#4. Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration.

David Bailey

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

Weegee

#6. If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

Robert Doisneau

#7. What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: "Paint me just as I am." Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.

Aubrey Beardsley

#8. There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.

Janet Malcolm

#9. A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.

Brassai

#10. The problem is I'm not a good photographer. To be perfectly honest, I'm too shy. Not aggressive enough. Well, I'm not aggressive at all. I just loved to see wonderfully dressed women, and I still do. That's all there is to it.

Bill Cunningham

#11. My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it.

Graeme Le Saux

#12. I always feel when you work with an artist and whenever I work with a really good photographer, I try to give him or her their own artistic freedom because that's the way you get the best work or at least the most interesting work.

Helen Mirren

#13. Once I became a photographer, it stopped me being scared or intimidated by gangs of young men of whatever stripe. Initially, I could hide behind my camera but eventually I came to realize that if I was polite and friendly to them, then they probably would be to me too - a good life lesson.

Derek Ridgers

#14. A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer.

Graciela Iturbide

#15. I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable.

Sally Mann