Quotes About Young Photographers

#1. They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure.

Helmut Newton

#2. 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

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

Marina Warner

#4. As fragrance abides in the flower
As reflection is within the mirror,
So does your Lord abide within you,
Why search for him without?

Guru Nanak

#5. Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it's very valid. But when established photographers, people in their forties, copy me and get a lot of money, well, I find that to be very stupid.

Helmut Newton

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. A mind too active is no mind at all.

Theodore Roethke

#10. Why did Amery have the overwhelming urge to curl into a ball and cry? Because he'd just shown her that she wasn't a cold bitch in bed? He'd proven that she could burn hot and fast with a man who took the time to find her fuse before he prematurely lit the match.

Lorelei James

#11. What's important is that you can be a wife and mother or you can be a devoted daughter all your life. You can't be both. Not when Thomas Jefferson is your father. You have to choose, Patsy. His

Stephanie Dray

#12. 'Civilians' is a term I love. It's what Elizabeth Hurley used to describe people who weren't on TV.

Alan Carr

#13. The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

Brassai

#14. Since I moved six or seven times the first year I was in New York, I had to be able to roll up the work, and paper would just get destroyed. Once I looked at what I'd done, I realized I had made a painting, sort of by default.

David Salle

#15. He was tired of associating depression with the myriad of fat girls.

J.A. Vasquez

#16. Impropriety is the soul of wit.

W. Somerset Maugham

#17. 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

#18. I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.

Dick Dale

#19. In a zero-sum game, the problem is entirely one of distribution, not at all one of production.

Kenneth Waltz

#20. 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

#21. 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