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My dad was actually against me being a photographer. He thought it was a dead-end job and that you end up doing baby pictures and weddings.
— Rick Smolan
By default, I am a travel photographer. I work on a combination of commissions and personal projects that take me around the world.
— Martin Parr
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
— George Bernard Shaw
I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.
— Alec Soth
A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer.
— Graciela Iturbide
French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
— Carine Roitfeld
A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.
— Bill Brandt
That's true, because I'm a photographer now.
— Leonard Nimoy
The camera is a kind of license.
— Diane Arbus
A photographer kept shooting me every time I swung. I was very flattered until I found out he was from Field and Stream.
— Bob Hope
I've been a photographer all these years ... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years.
— Graham Nash
I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself.
— Graeme Le Saux
The questions a photographer raises may be more profound than the answers the medium permits.
— Rebecca Solnit
My dad's a photographer. So I suppose he named me Ansel just in case I would take over the family business. I guess I failed him.
— Ansel Elgort
A likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Fall in love. Every day. With everything. With life. If you can fall in love, you can be a photographer. I think that is absolutely essential.
— Ruth Bernhard
It's like a malicious person lifting a photograph from the developing chemicals too early, and then pronouncing the photographer incompetent.
— John Taylor Gatto
I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
— Berenice Abbott
I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.
— Elliott Erwitt
I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
— Ben Affleck
I am an artist first and a photographer second.
— Andres Serrano
I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
— Irving Penn
Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer
— Ken Jennings
We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)
— William Eggleston
Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.
— Marc Riboud
To be a good hairdresser, you have to understand what the vision is of the designer or the photographer and then sort of add your thing.
— Guido Palau
You have to focus on what you are doing, not just as a photographer, but as a human being.
— Anders Petersen
I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable.
— Sally Mann
The police photographer asks, Don't you wanna give us a smile? Come on. Give us a smile.
— Assata Shakur
I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.
— Elliott Erwitt
Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer.
— Berenice Abbott
There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.
— Pablo Picasso
I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There's an elegance, just like in a bullfight.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Nothing like a bit of flattery to grease the wheels.
— Lindsey Kelk
Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer
— Gordon Parks
Schultes was a naive photographer. For him a beautiful image was one of something beautiful.
— Wade Davis
I didn't know a single female photographer who covered conflict who even had a boyfriend, much less a husband or a baby.
— Lynsey Addario
I'm not a nice girl. I'm a photographer.
— Berenice Abbott
The frame frames a frame of mind.
— John Paul Caponigro
A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
I'm a terrible photographer.I'm not being modest. My photos really are crap. But in a way, the more the photo is crap, the better to paint from.
— Chantal Joffe
It's not how a photographer looks at the world that is important. It's their intimate relationship with it.
— Antoine D'Agata
The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness
— Yann Arthus-Bertrand
You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.
— Elliott Erwitt
None of us is born with the right face. It's a tough job being a portrait photographer.
— Imogen Cunningham
As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.
— Rineke Dijkstra
If you're not a curious person, you're certainly not going to be a good photographer.
— Elliott Erwitt
It's funny: I was a photographer before I was a programmer.
— Kevin Systrom
I'm not very daring in my street style, usually because there's a photographer around!
— Anne Hathaway
Think like a photographer. Look at every vignette in your home like it's being shot for a shelter magazine and style accordingly.
— Jonathan Adler
And I'm a pretty avid photographer, I've been into photography for years now, so I try to spend some of my free time with that.
— Danny McBride
Photography is a very lonely medium. There's a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that's why I'm a photographer.
— Alec Soth
Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.
— Lykke Li
I think if you don't love people and aren't fascinated by them, you'll never succeed as a portrait photographer, because your pictures will look cold.
— Rankin
I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.
— Lucas Grabeel
Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ...
— John Szarkowski
I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
— Irving Penn
We should think of a photographer as a Samurai who makes rituals, moves and gestures in order to develop his techniques and his instinct.
— Alex Majoli
A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.
— Brassai
One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
— Ansel Adams
A photographer is like a writer ... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.
— Habib Umar Bin Hafiz
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
A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale and say 'Wow!'
— Joel Meyerowitz
I never take photographs myself. I don't feel like a photographer, more like a recycler
— Christian Boltanski
A creative photographer is one who either captures mystery or reveals things, everything else is useless
— Raghu Rai
I'm actually writing a short story about a photographer who went completely insane trying to take a close up photo of the horizon.
— Steven Wright
A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking.
— John Paul Caponigro
In England, I'm already labeled a rock photographer, which is a little insulting, because I'm not a rock photographer at all.
— Anton Corbijn
I feel as if I've been fairly successful with maintaining a cohesive tone between the work I make as a photographer and as a director.
— Aaron Ruell
When the British-Malaysian photographer Ian Teh first worked in China, more than a decade ago, he rendered it as a nation of people in Technicolor.
— Evan Osnos
The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.
— Ansel Adams
I'm a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my mind.
— Erik Johansson
I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
— Dorothea Lange
My mom was a photographer and whenever they needed a baby for a modelling job, she'd stick me in front of the camera. That's how it started.
— Alyson Hannigan
My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
— Sam Abell
To become a photographer leave your house first.
— Steve McCurry
For me, the best part is people who watch the movie and tell me it inspired them to collaborate with their friend who's a photographer or filmmaker.
— Feist
I didn't want to be a woman photographer. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera.
— Eve Arnold
I've always believed a great photographer should concentrate more on depth of feeling and less on depth of field.
— Max Dupain
A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars.
— Guy Le Querrec
As a photographer you have to do things you don't want to.
— Massimo Vitali
The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances ... a tiny relationship - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture.
— Ernst Haas
If you want to be a photographer, first leave home
— Steve McCurry