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Although the photographer and the art thief were close friends, neither had ever taken the other's picture. — George Carlin

Forget what it was. Look at what it is. — Jay Maisel

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

Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent. — Ray Metzker

A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer. — Graciela Iturbide

French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine. — Carine Roitfeld

I'm the world's most famous photographer, most sought after photographer, most awarded photographer. — Peter Lik

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

The camera is a kind of license. — Diane Arbus

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past. — Berenice Abbott

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

Photographers, like kids, should be seen and not heard. — Bill Jay

A likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer. — Vincent Van Gogh

As a photographer you have to do things you don't want to. — Massimo Vitali

I like photographers-you don't ask questions. — Ronald Reagan

You will, in time, see and show others not just the superficial, but the details, the meanings, and the implications of all that you look at ... — Jay Maisel

The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances ... a tiny relationship - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture. — Ernst Haas

If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up. — Garry Winogrand

If you want to be a photographer, first leave home — Steve McCurry

If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked. — Jay Maisel

A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars. — Guy Le Querrec

A photographer's reality is what he or she wants to show. — Fred Picker

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. — Ansel Adams

Only capitalists get photographers. — Stephen Sondheim

When you're modeling you're actually acting for the camera and the photographer. It's more fun, too because there are no lines to memorize. — Cindy Margolis

A photographer is like a writer ... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story. — Habib Umar Bin Hafiz

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

The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world — Jeanette Winterson

How do we know what we know? Is seeing believing? Is believing seeing? — John Paul Caponigro

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

Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer. — Berenice Abbott

I wanted to be the photographer of happiness. — Malick Sidibe

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

As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish ... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers. — Andreas Feininger

You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'. — Jay Maisel

When you live with a photographer, you never have a day off - it was a nightmare. — Marie Helvin

I'm not very daring in my street style, usually because there's a photographer around! — Anne Hathaway

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

Lange claimed that every photograph was a self-portrait of the photographer. — Geoff Dyer

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

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object. — Cindy Sherman

I use my music to tune myself. — Paul Caponigro

Al: Now, remind me, who's walking who down the aisle again? — Lindsey Kelk

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

Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same? — Elie Wiesel

You become technically proficient whether you want to or not, the more you take pictures. — William Eggleston

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

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

A creative photographer is one who either captures mystery or reveals things, everything else is useless — Raghu Rai

I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict. — Giles Duley

My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender. — Nick Park

The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates. — Susan Sontag

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

A camera exposes more than just an image. It also exposes the photographer. — Steve Coleman

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

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

The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism. — Cornell Capa

We know photographers make frames, but we deeply believe they can also create frameworks. — Susan Meiselas

If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist. — Paul Strand

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

There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning. — Pablo Picasso

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen. — Minor White

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

My mantra is, 'This or something better.' — John Paul Caponigro

Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer. — Andreas Feininger

None of us is born with the right face. It's a tough job being a portrait photographer. — Imogen Cunningham

I haven't seen too many images that have impressed me! — Berenice Abbott

The influence of mystery is the greatest influence. — Paul Caponigro

Schultes was a naive photographer. For him a beautiful image was one of something beautiful. — Wade Davis

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

I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can — John Sexton

Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols. — Vilem Flusser

Cameras are like dogs, but dumb, and toward quarry, even more faithful. They point, they render, and defy the photographer who hopes. — Tod Papageorge

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

Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities. — Frederick Sommer

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

But I did go back and soon I realized why. I was in love — Lindsey Kelk

Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums. — Lykke Li

I used to be a photographer - and now I'm some kind of digital photographic artist. — Chris Jordan

One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket. — Ansel Adams

Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new. — Jay Maisel

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

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

One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time. — Annie Leibovitz

I guess I'm adaptable. You know, I turn up at work and [photographers] can kind of do what they want with me, really. — Kate Moss

Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another. — John Paul Caponigro

I never take photographs myself. I don't feel like a photographer, more like a recycler — Christian Boltanski