“ My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport. ”
- Steve McCurry- Copy
- 2.1K
“ There were a lot of people that contributed to my success as a person as well as a player. Without those people, I wouldn't be sitting in the position that I'm sitting in today. I think that it's extremely important for people to realize all of the things that other people do for them. ”
- Alonzo Mourning- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts. ”
- Walker Evans- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can. ”
- Yousuf Karsh- Copy
- 1.7K
“ It's weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don't even amount to a couple of hours. ”
- James Lalropui Keivom- Copy
- 2.1K
“ I've been a photographer all these years… I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years. ”
- Graham Nash- Copy
- 694
“ My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain. ”
- Helmut Newton- Copy
- 592
“ I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture. ”
- Lisa Marie Presley- Copy
- 1.3K
“ A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields. ”
- Norman Parkinson- Copy
- 1K
“ 36 satisfactory exposures on a roll means a photographer is not trying anything new. ”
- Freeman Patterson- Copy
- 908
“ And there was always a bevy of up-and-coming photographers sitting in Orange Julius in the King's Road. ”
- Rachel Ward- Copy
- 2K
“ We had some good cameramen, and Hamish Hamilton, who did the direction, is very talented. ”
- Peter Gabriel- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Photographers never have much incentive to show the world as it is. ”
- William Leith- Copy
- 3.3K
“ No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen. ”
- Minor White- Copy
- 1.8K
“ I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 3.6K
“ 'To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, 'There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.'. ”
- Ansel Adams- Copy
- 2.4K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.5K
“ In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
- 732
“ I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
- 1K
“ The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking. ”
- Brooks Atkinson- Copy
- 1.7K
“ I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it. ”
- Berenice Abbott- Copy
- 3.8K
“ It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it. ”
- James Agee- Copy
- 1.8K
“ We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory. ”
- Henri Cartier Bresson- Copy
- 3.7K
“ To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures. Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist… ”
- Harry Callahan- Copy
- 87
“ I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer. ”
- Alfred Eisenstaedt- Copy
- 3.6K
“ I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love. ”
- Robert Frank- Copy
- 890
“ You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it. ”
- Robert Frank- Copy
- 3.3K
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