Top 100 Quotes About Photographers
#1. I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.
Harold Feinstein
#2. Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports. So one of the scams I have going now is I want to learn sports photography so I can get better seats at a sporting event.
Drew Carey
#3. I didn't take inspiration from other photographers, which in a way helped to find my own images.
Peter Lindbergh
#4. Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply as they have been influenced, maybe more. Anyway painters don't have a copyright on M. A. We were all born in the same upheaval.
Edward Weston
#6. Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button.
Andy Warhol
#7. A new love came into my life, a most beautiful one, one which will, I believe, stand the test of time ... Perhaps C. will be remembered as the great love of my life. Already I have achieved certain heights reached with no other love.
Edward Weston
#8. Bikers, in general, have just been so attractive to people. Photographers would follow them because there's this weird warrior gravitas that comes with it. The bikes are loud, they have tattoos, they have artwork that they all wear on their jackets.
Ryan Hurst
#10. Many photographers are apt to confuse color with noise, and to congratulate themselves when they have almost blown you down with screeching hues alone-a bebop of electric blues, furious reds, and poison greens.
Walker Evans
#11. I've seen so many photographers rush to do books the minute they start shooting, but one great thing about photography is that the images don't go away, so the more I sit with these images, the more I learn which ones have had the most impact.
Lynsey Addario
#12. By some special graciousness of fate I am deposited - as all good photographers like to be - in the right place at the right time. Go into it as young as possible. Bring all the asset you have and play to win.
Margaret Bourke-White
#13. We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#14. I get photographers hiding in my bushes. We're way past autographs. We're into being stalked and followed.
Jennifer Lawrence
#15. I'm very lucky that I've worked mainly with two amazing photographers in David Sims and Steven Meisel.
Guido Palau
#16. The word "photography" can be interpreted as "writing with light" or "drawing with light." Some photographers are producing beautiful photographs by drawing with light.. Some other photographers are trying to tell something with their photographs. They are writing with light ...
Philippe Halsman
#17. Fine artists reflect, and then they act. Fashion photographers - we act, and then we reflect.
Mario Testino
#18. I print giclees for artists and photographers for a livelihood. My original idea was to somehow combine the two.
Donald Lambert
#19. He knew why he and the other children received ice cream only when newspaper photographers came to visit, and why food and clothing donated for the children got furtively resold outside the orphanage gate.
Katherine Boo
#20. Teachers don't work in the summer, and photographers don't shoot in in the middle of the day.
John Loengard
#21. I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.
Annie Leibovitz
#22. Designers and photographers still want to work with me and I'm grateful for that. I don't know how long I'll carry on - as long as they'll have me.
Linda Evangelista
#23. What amazes me is that you can have 10 different photographers in the same room, and you see 10 different rooms. You realize how much of it is the person's perspective rather than the situation itself.
Rick Smolan
#24. I have had the privilege of working with the best in the business, from photographers to designers to magazines. There's not much more to ask for but I'm still looking forward to one day working with photographers Mert and Marcus, Tim Walker and Nick Knight.
Chanel Iman
#25. I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own.
Saul Leiter
#26. It's amazing to be able to work with people right at the top of whatever they do ... inspiring photographers and stylists with very interesting visual language. The more I do it, the more I enjoy it.
Edie Campbell
#27. The only thing we photographers really want more than life, more than sex, more than anything, is to be invisible.
Philip Jones Griffiths
#28. I love the Dutch impressionists - Vermeer, Rembrandt. What they were able to do with light was astonishing. As for photographers, I think mostly of the Hungarians: Robert Capa, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Jozsef Pesci. In fact, I have one of his photographs hanging in my house.
Vilmos Zsigmond
#29. That's what makes it a good photograph. You think you know what's going on in her head. but the truth? No matter how good a photograph is, you can never tell what's going on in the person's mind. There's no way to get from here to there.
David Levithan
#30. It's the time when brides-to-be argue with their mothers about what colours and cuts will work for the many wedding functions. Young couples try to find polite ways to tell their parents that the invites are old-fashioned and hunt for photographers who
Anonymous
#31. I prefer friends who walks with me in the shade - because friends, who constantly splendor in the glow of the flash of photographers, and sometimes accompany me - at every turn in times of success, this species of friends are suspect to me.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#32. He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin zoo, there were 200 photographers.
Martin Bashir
#33. My advice to photographers is to get out there in the field and take photographs but also if they are students to finish their course, learn as many languages as possible, go to movies, read books visit museums, broaden your mind.
Martine Franck
#34. One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.
Mary Ellen Mark
#35. When I was 13, I had a weekend job at the Photographers Gallery Bookshop in London.
Beeban Kidron
#36. A lot of photographers walk around looking for something 'out there,' but I'm very much interested in what's 'in here.'
Duane Michals
#37. We photographers say that we take a picture, and in a certain sense, that is true. We take something from people's lives, but in doing so we tell their story.
Steve McCurry
#38. When I'm approaching a water jump, with dozens of photographers waiting for me to fall in, and hundreds of spectators wondering what's going to happen next, the horse is just about the only one who doesn't know I am Royal!
Anne, Princess Royal
#39. I've done over 125 posters and I have worked with some of the best photographers in the world. They made me America's Number one Pin Up.
Cindy Margolis
#40. It's up to us as photographers to give voice to the natural world.
Frans Lanting
#41. I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
Duane Michals
#42. When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know where in the world they will find pictures. Nobody does. Each photograph that works is a revelation to its supposed creator.
Robert Adams
#43. My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.
Galen Rowell
#44. Almost all photographers have incurred large expenses in the pursuit of tiny audiences, finding that the wonder they'd hoped to share is something few want to receive.
Robert Adams
#45. I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.
John Sexton
#46. Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#47. The main thing is to study pictures and stop listening to the pontifictaions of photographers. Photographers aren't oracles of wisdom. If they're good photographers, then take a good look at their pictures - what else do you need?
Elliott Erwitt
#48. We [photographers] have the tools and the power to create images - we should try to make them as truthful as possible.
Petra Collins
#49. Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.
Robert Adams
#50. I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers.
Anthony Holden
#51. I believe Photoshop is in some way the contemporary darkroom, the creative area that all photographers have available today.
Douglas Kirkland
#52. Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being said. Photographers, on the other hand, study them with the care and attention to detail one might give to a difficult scientific paper or a complicated poem.
Howard S. Becker
#53. Oh, yeah, any functioning society has got to have its doctors, its teachers, and its nightlife photographers.
Leila Sales
#54. We are entering into an age in which visual language is defined by a dialogue between photographers and audiences. This means not just the democratic posting of images but the democratic interpretation of images.
Gilles Peress
#55. There are different types of fancy photographers. Some are big, fun personalities like Mario Testino, who once told me, "Lift your chin, darling, you are not eighteen." I enjoyed his honesty. Also, I'm pretty sure he says that to models who are nineteen.
Tina Fey
#56. People, photographers, people in the press can sometimes be inappropriate.
Tobey Maguire
#57. Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.
Duane Michals
#58. If the subject is in a suffering circumstance, it is all the more preferable to apply craft to the utmost. Call it art or not, we photographers should always try to pass on our observations with the utmost clarity.
Dennis Stock
#59. Photography should be redefined. It's largely technical ... Photography is just unbelievably limiting. I always think of David Bailey and all the fashion photographers - they overlap, you can't always tell who did it. I don't really even like photography all that much. I just think it's so overdone.
Peter Beard
#60. Even in the nineties, when it was mad and there were photographers all around the house, it never occurred to me to send someone else out to get cigarettes. It took me five minutes - went for a walk, gave a wave, went back inside.
Noel Gallagher
#61. I admire photographers who can take much more ordinarily subject matter and make it transcend that ordinariness, so that it becomes something else fresh and new. It opens this doorway. I really admire people who can do that with photography.
Andy Summers
#62. It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have always felt strongly that this was the photographer's true vocation.
Brassai
#63. Photographers represented occasions once. You dressed for them as you might for church; they cost money, they recorded important moments.
Michael Lesy
#64. I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.
Lisa Marie Presley
#65. There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.
Patti Smith
#66. Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.
Pablo Picasso
#67. The [concentration camps] were swarming with photographers and every new picture of horror served only to diminish the total effect. Now, for a short day, everyone will see what happened to those poor devils in those camps; tomorrow, very few will care what happens to them in the future.
Robert Capa
#68. I think there are two types of photographers, those who want to document the world and those who want to create their own world. I am more interested in documenting the world and presenting it to people with the question attached, 'Does this make any sense to you?'
Moby
#69. Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It's absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It's the gimmick of money.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#70. The satisfaction comes from working next to 500 photographers and coming away with something different.
David Burnett
#71. All the photographers were trying to just get me off, which was hilarious. But it was very, very amusing.
Bella Heathcote
#72. Fame is not just about being able to get out of a limo in Leicester Square, it's about trying to get into your house when there are eight photographers outside. When you think about being famous, you don't think about all that stuff. You think about the glamour.
Rick Astley
#73. Nowadays, photographers start out with ideas, and their photos become the expression of an idea. To my way of thinking, a photo should not depend on ideas, should go beyond ideas.
Edouard Boubat
#74. For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers.
Subcomandante Marcos
#75. Remember that most people (those who are not photographers) don't even see the things that you missed. Many don't even look. Ergo, you are way ahead of the game.
Jay Maisel
#77. Some photographers work on the same image for hours and hours and then use the first picture that they took.
Alice Dellal
#78. That's why the savvy bride purchases wedding insurance. Like travel insurance, wedding insurance will guarantee that you don't lose the entirety of your deposits on things like venues, cakes, photographers, food suppliers, wedding limos, flowers, honeymoon, even your gown ...
Meg Cabot
#79. We photographers are poets in the language of symbols.
Jan Phillips
#80. There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.
Annie Leibovitz
#81. I love photography. Photographers and photos. I took a ton of pictures in Paris, and I find that I'm most inspired by following other photographers on Instagram.
Abigail Spencer
#82. Photographers undervalue the use of the wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography.
Ralph Steiner
#83. The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
Ansel Adams
#84. There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the studio is the world ... For them, the ordinary doesn't exist: every thing in life is a source of nourishment.
Ernst Haas
#85. I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.
Michael Caine
#86. True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists.
Bill Jay
#87. I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution.
Jacqueline Bisset
#88. There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.
Janet Malcolm
#89. Adequate photographers use their sight, good photographers use their senses, and great photographers use their souls.
A.J. Compton
#90. A lot of mainstream photographers seem not to think about what they're doing or feel any responsibility toward anything. By the time they're done, the models don't have any trace of themselves left. This thing about looking young with no wrinkles or expression is all so boring, really.
Peter Lindbergh
#91. My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.
Bill Skarsgard
#92. Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.
Alfred Stieglitz
#93. Photographers don't need to be aggressive. Some are. Henry Benson is aggressive - but then he's from Fleet Street. If you can talk to people, you don't need to push people around.
Alfred Eisenstaedt
#94. All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.
Roland Barthes
#95. Photographers, like kids, should be seen and not heard.
Bill Jay
#96. I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.
Babette March
#97. Believe in yourself. Listen to the photographers you work with, and try to be professional at all time.
Alessandra Ambrosio
#98. Upgrade your user, not your product. Value is less about the stuff and more about the stuff the stuff enables. Don't build better cameras - build better photographers.
Kathy Sierra
#99. Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
#100. These elites, preferring to work in private, are rarely found posed for photographers, and their influence upon events has therefore to be deduced from what is known of the agencies they employ.
Harold Wallace Rosenthal
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