Street Photographer Quotes

#1. I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heat of the known awaits just around the corner.

Alex Webb

#2. Traditional photojournalists arrive with an idea of what they are going to produce or what the editor wants. I approach a subject very much as a street photographer and a wanderer, without preconceptions. I try to leave it extremely intuitive and exploratory.

Alex Webb

#3. 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

#4. The street photographer can best be identified not by what they shoot, but why they shoot.

James Maher

#5. Well, I'm not going to get into that. I think that those kind of distinctions and lists of titles like "street photographer" are so stupid. I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.

Garry Winogrand

#6. I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's something very romantic about a circus.

Mary Ellen Mark

#7. Photoshop and Lightroom help me transform my photos into what my heart felt, but my camera couldn't quite capture!

Marius Vieth

#8. 'Das Kapital,' I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.

Thomas Piketty

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

Marius Vieth

#10. Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.

Minor White

#11. Beauty today can have no other measure except the depth to which a work resolves contradictions. A work must cut through the contradictions and overcome them, not by covering them up, but by pursuing them.

Theodor W. Adorno

#12. I started out on photography accidentally. A policeman came to a stop at the end of my street, and a guy knifed him at the end of my street. That's how I became a photographer. I photographed the gangs that I went to school with.

Don McCullin

#13. If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.

John Cage

#14. Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

Brian Lumley

#15. Either you look back and deal with your hypocrisy, or you dismiss it.

Jose Padilha

#16. Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist - someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.

Peter M. Senge

#17. One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.

Iman

#18. When they are alone, lying quietly, he holds her the way a child holds a stuffed animal: for comfort, for security, out of a primate's urge to cling, to close one's arms around a warm, soft object.

Maggie Shipstead

#19. You can make almost anything a learning or positive experience. I think I offer a good example of how to make the most out of what life gives you and how to keep moving on.

Augusten Burroughs

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

Garry Winogrand

#21. I'm not very daring in my street style, usually because there's a photographer around!

Anne Hathaway

#22. We must master our good fortune, or it will master us.

Publilius Syrus

#23. I have been known on occasion to howl at the moon.

Crash Davis

#24. 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

#25. You can't always get what you want.

Mick Jagger

#26. I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice.

Brian May

#27. Bragging is how criminals get caught and men with deep secrets deliver themselves to their enemies. It's bonehead human nature. We all want to look special. Knowing something is one of the best ways.

Glen Cook

#28. Edward counseled that a photograph of consequence could be made from just about anything. Subject matter, in itself, was not critical. The understanding of the photographer was.

Mary Street Alinder

#29. You look beautiful. I'm so happy I finally agreed to go on this date with you." That makes me laugh. "Really? Were you being hounded relentlessly?" "Like you wouldn't believe," he says, raising his eyebrows. "It's been exhausting having to dodge your advances.

Claire Contreras

#30. The sky all at once is overhead dim and grey, puzzle of blocks sprawl, their own horizon; the city looks like a cemetery full of weak daylight, cool and a little wrong, making Ella feel a little put upon, like leap-year day - nothing in itself, but a nudge jostling every other day.

Michael Cisco