Photographer Quotes

I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them?

All photographs are self-portraits.

Of course it's all luck.

It should be the aim of every photographer to make a single exposure that shows everything about the subject. I have been told that my portrait of Churchill is an example of this.

Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.

The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.

I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.

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.

I have gradually confused photography with life.

If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.

Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.

I've always believed a great photographer should concentrate more on depth of feeling and less on depth of field.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

I’m really just using the mirror to summon something I don’t even know until I see it.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, photographers are worth a million.

It is every photographer's responsibility to discover new images and a new personal way of looking at things. If he can do this his pictures will command attention and have surprise quality.

The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light.

I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.

I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.

Technically, I have not changed very much. Ask my assistants. They'll tell you, I am the easiest photographer to work with. I don't have heavy equipment. I work out of one bag.

The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest—yes. Objective—no.

As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis.

Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that is direct and uncompromising.

Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.

I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.

Photographers are always imposing

Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere.

The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time.

A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe.

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business.

To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

Good photography is unpretentious.

Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and maybe the profession will come after.

We [photographers] have the tools and the power to create images - we should try to make them as truthful as possible.

Great photography is always on the edge of failure.

Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph

I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own.

It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.

I didn't take inspiration from other photographers, which in a way helped to find my own images.

The wandering photographer sees the same show that everyone else sees. He, however, stops to watch it.

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

Always shoot it now. It won't be the same when you go back.