Important Photographer Quotes

#1. The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation - not where the action is taking place, but where it's going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they're going to be.

Lawrence Schiller

#2. Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul.

Marius Vieth

#3. I try not to tell students where to shoot, when to shoot, or what to shoot. I feel finding the picture is the most important part of being a photographer. The actual shooting is of lesser importance.

Jay Maisel

#4. When a photographer chooses a subject, he or she is making a claim on the interest and attention of future viewers, a prediction about what will be thought to have been important.

Frank Gohlke

#5. I don't think at that time I realized how important it was and how important it was for me to be here and carry on that legacy in our family of being a photographer.

Kim Weston

#6. The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

Gordon Parks

#7. I am always on the go; being a photographer, filmmaker, author and a father, things become stressful, and it is important to find time to escape for a few minutes.

Nigel Barker

#8. Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#9. The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to know what you stand for, no? Most people just take pictures, but they stand for nothing. They follow trends and don't know why.

Peter Lindbergh

#10. Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'

Leila Janah

#11. He was back. Of course he was, she thought scornfully. He'd returned after all that time, just when she looked her very worst and had a pimple.

Jayne Fresina

#12. It is very hard to say where you're going until you get there. That kind of thing is based very much on instinct. As a photographer, one of the most important lessons I have learnt is that you have to learn to listen to and trust your own instinct. It has helped to guide me - this far at least.

James Nachtwey

#13. They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#14. Everything we have, everything we are, is a gift.
How can we judge and shame ourselves if this is true?

Anna White

#15. A new day will come and when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#16. No photographer should be blamed when, instead of capturing reality, he tries to show things he has seen only in his imagination. Photography is the youngest art form. All attempts to enlarge its frontiers are important and should be encouraged.

Philippe Halsman

#17. The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs.

Gordon Parks

#18. The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding of his subject and mastery of his process.

Edward Weston

#19. Marriage is not something that's easy, but nothing in life is easy.

Emmitt Smith

#20. It's important to realize that the images are everywhere, not just where you want or expect them to be.

Jay Maisel

#21. The head of the photographer is more important than his camera

Philippe Halsman

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

Sebastiao Salgado

#23. One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.

Ansel Adams

#24. Beauty does not depend on external details; Beauty reflects the inner disposition, the internal state of one's being.

Morari Bapu

#25. I'm flattered by the offers I receive, but there's no real strategy to the way I choose what to do these days. If I'm in a good mood and have the time, I'm more likely to consider it. Often the photographer and team are important factors, too.

Christy Turlington

#26. The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another.

Margaret Bourke-White

#27. All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own, and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Samuel Johnson

#28. I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real.

Steve Forbert

#29. It's not how a photographer looks at the world that is important. It's their intimate relationship with it.

Antoine D'Agata

#30. I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.

Berenice Abbott

#31. But I did not always know just what it was I wanted to photograph. I believe it is important for a photographer to discover this, for unless he finds what it is that excites him, what it is that calls forth at once an emotional response, he is unlikely to achieve his best work.

Bill Brandt

#32. Lexi looked him up and down and laughed. I'll fight every one of you. I'll make it my goal to slice off every Dark Fae dick. I'll make sure that you can't harm another human again

Donna Grant

#33. Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#34. If I print something out, I just spend all my time trying to find where I've put it down.

Jennifer Ehle

#35. If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important as the equipment he uses.

Margaret Bourke-White