Quotes About Photographers

#1. 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

#2. There was a time when photographers were thought to be socially secondary, and, hence, not dangerous. Lincoln was more important than Brady. It didn't occur to anyone to worry about the manner in which a photograph was taken.

George W. S. Trow

#3. I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers.

Lauren Hutton

#4. Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.

Nikki Giovanni

#5. I used to not be confident. My father certainly didn't add to my confidence. When I was 17 or 18, I was voted the most beautiful girl in England by the association of press photographers. When they called Daddy for a comment, he said, 'I'm amazed. She's a nice looking girl, but nothing special.'

Joan Collins

#6. I believe that the source of your inspiration is very important. I sometimes see this problem with photographers, even very good ones, who have drawn too much inspiration from photography and who, over time, have a problem forming their own identity.

Peter Lindbergh

#7. What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.

William Albert Allard

#8. Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

Sally Mann

#9. I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography.

Joan Fontcuberta

#10. These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.

Galen Rowell

#11. We are all photographers, that's how we remember things; with pictures in our minds. Some of us have good taste and passion to make it an art form and just a few warriors who know the technicalities and marketing make a living out of it.

Ben Tolosa

#12. During my lifetime I have met dozens of writers and photographers in dozens of different countries. But I have encountered no one who could both write and photograph with the artistry of Robert Vavra.

James A. Michener

#13. The neatest part of this book I'm working on - to me - are the pictures that show the process ... Because photographers ... think things through and ... it isn't luck, and it isn't random and it isn't accidental. It isn't.

Sam Abell

#14. As long as designers want to dress me, photographers want to take my picture and companies think my face will help their products, then I won't go anywhere until they're done with me.

Linda Evangelista

#15. We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers.

Charlotte Cotton

#16. There weren't paparazzi standing outside. There weren't all these photographers. People really didn't know what fashion was and what was happening in the tents.

Roopal Patel

#17. Some photographers take reality ... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

Ansel Adams

#18. I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot of painters and photographers and had a very artistic upbringing. And I fantasized about being a drug-dealer when I was a kid. I thought it would be a good opportunity; I knew that the market would be strong. Is that bizarre?

Jared Leto

#19. Like most photographers, I try to capture a moment in my work.

Julian Lennon

#20. I think all photographers fit their vision to their personality.

Kim Weston

#21. The celebrity-making machine-photographers, paparazzi, press and stuff like that-can be ruthless.

Catherine Keener

#22. It's not easy for most girls to stand in next-to-nothing and listen to photographers and stylists commenting on how they look.

Alyssa Sutherland

#23. With each assignment, I weigh the looming possibility of being killed, and I chastise myself for allowing fear to hinder me. War photographers aren't supposed to get scared.

Lynsey Addario

#24. Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#25. It must be confessed that it takes considerable skill to produce the best kind of lies. It is in the hands of first-class photographers only - and perhaps the indifferent ones - that photography can lie.

Henry Peach Robinson

#26. I get to work with great photographers, wear lovely clothes, be part of the creative process.

Alexa Chung

#27. I've been very lucky, getting to travel the world with professional photographers. I'd grab their equipment, get a few lessons, and start firing shots.

Rob Machado

#28. Photographers - idiots, of which there are so many - say, "Oh, if only I had a Nikon or a Leica, I could make great photographs." That's the dumbest thing I ever heard in my life. It's nothing but a matter of seeing, and thinking, and interest.

Andreas Feininger

#29. Of course I don't like the fact that my wife goes to the supermarket and there are photographers. But I realise that the press attention is the same wherever you go.

Luis Suarez

#30. I do find it strange, doing magazine shoots. Photographers always go, 'Why don't you like to have your picture taken? That's what you do for a living anyway. Just pretend you're acting. It's the same thing!'

James McAvoy

#31. Photographers have to make the clothes look fantastic; that's why we get paid.

Patrick Demarchelier

#32. I think this is the most exciting time in the history of photography. Technology is expanding what photographers can do, like the microscope and the telescope expanded what scientists could do.

Richard Misrach

#33. I take my camera to shoots and ask all the photographers and assistants to show me what to do with it.

Suki Waterhouse

#34. Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists.

Arnold Newman

#35. As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish ... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers.

Andreas Feininger

#36. Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.

Bill Jay

#37. There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination. They look, but they don't see.

Gordon Willis

#38. I can't tell you how many reshoots I've done from, you know, famous photographers who really love just to shoot models and failed at shooting a Patti Labelle or someone like that because Patti Labelle didn't turn them on, so you have to shoot what you care about.

Carol Friedman

#39. These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.

Barry Manilow

#40. I'm aware of how lucky I am. Being able to make pretty good money, and get to do a lot of fun work, and at the same time I'm not besieged by photographers.

John C. Reilly

#41. As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights ... That all significant perfect moment, so essential to capture, is often highly perishable. There may be little opportunity to probe deeper.

Margaret Bourke-White

#42. I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.

Penelope Cruz

#43. Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols.

Vilem Flusser

#44. Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent.

Ray Metzker

#45. A lot of photographers like models to be blank canvases - but bland girls don't influence me. I don't like playing with dolls; I like playing with people.

Mario Testino

#46. Photographers, like few other kinds of artists I can imagine, have an insanely
personal relationship with their gear.

David DuChemin

#47. The best way for photographers to become rich and famous is to go into another field.

Bill Jay

#48. We don't have only two eyes; we have hundreds of wonderful eyes, because there are hundreds of wonderful photographers!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#49. I do go very fast. I think if I don't go fast it's going to be boring. That's what photographers need to do.

Carine Roitfeld

#50. Photography belongs to a fraternity of its own. I was young and enthusiastic and wanted to take good pictures to show the other photographers. That, and the professional pride of convincing an editor that I was the man to go somewhere, were the most important things to me.

Don McCullin

#51. Life's the picture. But all good photographers know you gotta have the right lens.

Lamar Giles

#52. I'm just the opposite of a lot of photographers who want everything to be really, really sharp. And they're always, you know, stopping it down to F64.

Sally Mann

#53. It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.

Brooke Shields

#54. Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.

Charles Baudelaire

#55. I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock 'n' roll bands.

John Dykstra

#56. I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone.

Saoirse Ronan

#57. In making portraits, I refuse to photograph myself as do so many photographers. My style is the style of the people I photograph.

Lotte Jacobi

#58. We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect ... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs ... if you look very intensely and slowly, things will happen that you never dreamed of before.

Aaron Siskind

#59. Armael shook his head. "The Origin created all creatures for a purpose."
"Are these supposed to rid the world of stupid photographers?

Pat Harris

#60. Photographers have always been each other's biggest fans.

Rick Smolan

#61. 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

#62. I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph.

Stephen Shore

#63. I am not a photojournalist and certainly not used to the Jason Bourne type stuff that some photographers have to deal with.

Platon

#64. Nowadays everyone has a camera and the Internet means everything is instantly accessible. Unlike some photographers, I don't see this as a problem. If anything interesting happens in the world today, there will be someone around to record it.

Derek Ridgers

#65. I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that's fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don't really want to change, and I still love film.

Mary Ellen Mark

#66. What difference can a bunch of photographers make?" Rosier sneered. "Most of them look as though they're a hamburger away from a heart attack.

Kirsten Miller

#67. Not just a recipe book, but a genuine overview of Tuscany's culinary history and culture, a journey in images through photographs taken specifically by expert photographers.

Tuscookany

#68. Most photographers work best alone, myself included.

Elliott Erwitt

#69. I've learned to suck in my stomach when photographers are around. I used to read gossip magazines all the time, but I stopped when I started being written about in them and read incredible lies about myself.

Fergie

#70. Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.

Dorothea Lange

#71. I think a lot of times, especially for certain stories, photographers travel together for safety reasons, and they also invariably cross paths. But you could have 10 photographers shooting together in the same spot but capturing different images.

Carol Guzy

#72. I have a really hard time stepping out of a limousine and confronting a sh*tload of photographers who are all screaming at you, because it's like saying, 'yeah, yeah, here I am!'

Julia Ormond

#73. Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that is latent within them.

Frank Gohlke

#74. I believe that ... my first successes in my out-of-focus pictures were a fluke. That is to say, that when focusing and coming to something which, to my eye, was very beautiful, I stopped there instead of screwing on the lens to the more definite focus which all other photographers insist upon ...

Julia Margaret Cameron

#75. The difference between a good picture and a mediocre picture is a question of millimeters - small, small differences - but it's essential. I didn't think there is such a big difference between photographers. Very little difference. But it is that little difference that counts, maybe

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#76. Being a digital photographer I'm in awe of the older generation of photographers who created all those iconic cinematic style images on film, such as Man Ray's portrait of the photographer Lee Miller.

Paul Walker

#77. It was enough to make me feel like retreating into some wooded or snowy clime, where only the most determined photographers or Mary-hunters might find me.

Tara Altebrando

#78. Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a person - the life you lead - not your facade.

Nigel Barker

#79. Before he came to Spain, photographers lined up in the discotheques, but they are still there waiting for him. Ronaldo is an obsessive of training, of the gym, of self-improvement. I've never seen a player in such good physical condition. He's a gladiator.

Jorge Valdano

#80. There's people outside our house; you get followed by photographers; you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a friend without someone coming up to you.

Jack Osbourne

#81. When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad ... but it's hard trying to breathe in for such a long time when I spot the photographers!

Gary Lineker

#82. I dressed all in black and went to see all the top photographers, like Irving Penn, and said, 'I am Veruschka who comes from the border between Russia, Germany and Poland. I'd like to see what you can do with my face.'

Veruschka Von Lehndorff

#83. You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I'm the one to do it.

Berenice Abbott

#84. I started as a black-and-white teenage photographer, and I'm still there decades after. In some ways, the genre is almost gone. I am thinking of true, stubborn, lifetime black-and-white photographers, as opposed to black-and-white as a photographic commodity.

Hedi Slimane

#85. I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.

Hanneli Mustaparta

#86. I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.

Duane Michals

#87. Discussions allow photographers to shuffle their prejudices

Bill Jay

#88. When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

Marina Warner

#89. The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers. In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.

Adam McKay

#90. What my eyes seek in these encounters is not just the beauty traditionally revered by wildlife photographers. The perfection I seek in my photographic composition is a means to show the strength and dignity of animals in nature.

Frans Lanting

#91. Those who want to be serious photographers, you're really going to have to edit your work. You're going to have to understand what you're doing. You're going to have to not just shoot, shoot, shoot. To stop and look at your work is the most important thing you can do.

Annie Leibovitz

#92. I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

Mahatma Gandhi

#93. Edward [Weston] was the first artist - and I don't use the word lightly - to make a living doing art photography. Other photographers did commercial work, or worked for the government.

Rondal Partridge

#94. I don't want a gang of shouting, arguing, law-breaking photographers to camp out everywhere we are, all day every day, to continue traumatizing my kids,

Jennifer Garner

#95. Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is incomprehensible, even inconceivable.

Stephen Shore

#96. A lot of paparazzi wanted to be real photographers but they failed, and they did that instead, and it's not right; it's stalking.

Peaches Geldof

#97. Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese.

Bill Jay

#98. Photographers encode their concepts as photographic images so as to give others information, so as to produce models for them and thereby to become immortal in the memory of others.

Vilem Flusser

#99. There are many points of views. We as photographers immortalize the existence of an isolated view.

Jon Luvelli

#100. It's been a strange [summer] ... I was sent by a magazine to photograph famous photographers ... Of course, I included myself.

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