Quotes About A Great Photographer

#1. I've always believed a great photographer should concentrate more on depth of feeling and less on depth of field.

Max Dupain

#2. Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.

David Bailey

#3. You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.

Eve Arnold

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.

Max Eastman

#7. God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race
to enlarge our hearts, to make us unselfish, and full of kindly sympathies and affections.

Mary Howitt

#8. I didn't see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn't make those boundaries. If someone wants to think it's art, that's great, but I'll let history decide.

David LaChapelle

#9. [Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)

Ernest Hemingway,

#10. I absolutely adore baking with my nieces and nephews. It's super fun, and I love baking by myself, so what I like to do is have a cabinet for my baking essentials.

Khloe Kardashian

#11. I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject at the time the pictures were made. That's all that any photographer can claim. I do not know any great photographer who would presume otherwise.

David Hurn

#12. When images are in black and white, they seem timeless. When you see Carrie Otis in an ad from 1989 next to an ad with Klara Wester from 2009, you don't see a 20-year difference between the pictures.

Paul Marciano

#13. There are a lot of photographers who have influenced me; some of the great ones, like Herb Ritts, Helmut Newton, and [Alfred] Stieglitz. I draw from all of them. You're supposed to steal from the good ones.

Leonard Nimoy

#14. I had a tough career. I then resolved to find peace. And, I finally found Islam.

Nicolas Anelka

#15. It's good that everyone has an opportunity to take pictures, the chance to be a photographer. Some are good, too. But the bad thing is that it's very, very difficult to take a great picture. Everyone can take a good picture - even a child - but it's hard to make a great one.

Mary Ellen Mark

#16. Just as a fisherman cannot catch fish unless his line is in the water, a wildlife photographer cannot shoot great wildlife images unless he or she is out there with camera in hand and the knowledge of what to do then the 'magnificent moment' occurs.

George H. Harrison

#17. If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked.

Jay Maisel

#18. He had thought that home was something one possessed, but the things one had possessed were cursed with change; it was what one didn't possess that remained the same and welcomed him.

Graham Greene

#19. I don't like gimmicky pictures; I've always hated them. I like pictures that are very clear and clean, whether you're a great street photographer - somebody like Friedlander or Winogrand or Cartier-Bresson - or whether you're a portraitist, like Irving Penn.

Mary Ellen Mark

#20. Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.

Garry Winogrand

#21. But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're taken by a really expensive photographer, with great light, and in terms of the quality of the photograph it's a great photograph, but in terms of imagery it's unacceptable, and I like that contradiction.

Damien Hirst

#22. On the McGuire course, there's a technique called 'cancellation' where negative experiences are replaced with positive ones.

Gareth Gates

#23. Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.

Roland Barthes

#24. You want to know what Im going to do? Daemons entire body tensed under my hand. You know where your head and ass are? Well, they're about to become well acquainted with each other

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#25. The photographer does the world a great disservice when he leaves his camera at home.

Mark Denman

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

Janet Malcolm

#27. We are treasure chests with more jewels inside than we can imagine.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#28. I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

Imogen Cunningham

#29. Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography.

Martin Parr

#30. This was the stuff of novels with
yeah
men like him on the cover.

Erin Kellison

#31. I wanted to make a record that sounded like a continous piece

Paul Weller

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

Ansel Adams