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A lot of fashion photographers will do the same sort of image for many years; it's easier to be successful if you do that. — Mario Testino

Designers and photographers still want to work with me and I'm grateful for that. I don't know how long I'll carry on - as long as they'll have me. — Linda Evangelista

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

Predators and prey always coexist. That's why we have galleries as well as photographers. — Bill Jay

Every time someone downloads a picture, the photographers get paid about 30% of what we charge. — Jon Oringer

All the photographers were trying to just get me off, which was hilarious. But it was very, very amusing. — Bella Heathcote

Some of the angles that photographers get on court are not always flattering. — Jelena Jankovic

The celebrity-making machine-photographers, paparazzi, press and stuff like that-can be ruthless. — Catherine Keener

When I went to L.A., I started modeling, hoping to travel and learn from photographers. It led to auditions to do commercials. — Beth Riesgraf

There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work. — Janet Malcolm

In making portraits, I refuse to photograph myself as do so many photographers. My style is the style of the people I photograph. — Lotte Jacobi

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it! — Ansel Adams

We photographers are poets in the language of symbols. — Jan Phillips

A lot of paparazzi wanted to be real photographers but they failed, and they did that instead, and it's not right; it's stalking. — Peaches Geldof

Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great portrait photographers are great mythologists. — Roland Barthes

Why do photographers photograph? To make unreality visible. — Bill Jay

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

Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture. — Robert Adams

Photographers can create moments that will never happen again but last a lifetime. — Tyler Shields

Some photographers work on the same image for hours and hours and then use the first picture that they took. — Alice Dellal

Many photographers live in a dream world of beautiful backgrounds. It wouldn't hurt them to get a taste of reality to wake them up. — Weegee

Photographers represented occasions once. You dressed for them as you might for church; they cost money, they recorded important moments. — Michael Lesy

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance. — Sally Mann

Believe in yourself. Listen to the photographers you work with, and try to be professional at all time. — Alessandra Ambrosio

Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all. — Martin Parr

Adequate photographers use their sight, good photographers use their senses, and great photographers use their souls. — A.J. Compton

I take my camera to shoots and ask all the photographers and assistants to show me what to do with it. — Suki Waterhouse

The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves. — Graciela Iturbide

Teachers don't work in the summer, and photographers don't shoot in in the middle of the day. — John Loengard

I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly. — Babette March

I think all photographers fit their vision to their personality. — Kim Weston

There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work. — Patti Smith

Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists. — Arnold Newman

Life's the picture. But all good photographers know you gotta have the right lens. — Lamar Giles

There're only a few photographers I've ever felt really comfortable with. — Michael Keaton

We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers. — Charlotte Cotton

I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph. — Stephen Shore

Photographers, like few other kinds of artists I can imagine, have an insanely
personal relationship with their gear. — David DuChemin

I'm very lucky that I've worked mainly with two amazing photographers in David Sims and Steven Meisel. — Guido Palau

My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years. — Alexander McQueen

The only thing we photographers really want more than life, more than sex, more than anything, is to be invisible. — Philip Jones Griffiths

The runner stopped dead, lost his balance, froze in one of those violent attitudes in which the photographers petrify living reality. — Jean Cocteau

Photographers are the new Brahmins: we have no volition when they rule us. — Amit Chaudhuri

I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone. — Saoirse Ronan

True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists. — Bill Jay

I do go very fast. I think if I don't go fast it's going to be boring. That's what photographers need to do. — Carine Roitfeld

A few photographers make a killing; the rest can't make a living. — Bill Jay

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

Like most photographers, I try to capture a moment in my work. — Julian Lennon

The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing. — Duane Michals

Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a person - the life you lead - not your facade. — Nigel Barker

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

Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities. — Dorothea Lange

Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph. — Garry Winogrand

Danny Lyon is one of my favorite photographers. — Rachel Kushner

It's not easy for most girls to stand in next-to-nothing and listen to photographers and stylists commenting on how they look. — Alyssa Sutherland

Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul. — Nikki Giovanni

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

Photographers have to make the clothes look fantastic; that's why we get paid. — Patrick Demarchelier

I don't trust photographers. I'm now a relaxed, contented 60 year-old, but look at my pictures and you see a crazy, bug-eyed serial killer. — Richard Ingrams

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

I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture. — Lisa Marie Presley

Only capitalists get photographers. — Stephen Sondheim

Photographers can either look out the window at the world or they can look in the mirror. — David Alan Harvey

He nodded, looking across the room at the sea of photographers and journalists. The microphones spread around him like birds waiting to be fed. — F.C. Malby

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

Fashion photographers are the new painters. — Peter Lindbergh

I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online. — Hanneli Mustaparta

Armael shook his head. "The Origin created all creatures for a purpose."
"Are these supposed to rid the world of stupid photographers? — Pat Harris

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

Photographers and people do try to take advantage of you. You just have to stand your ground and prove you're not an easy target. — Terry Farrell

I get to work with great photographers, wear lovely clothes, be part of the creative process. — Alexa Chung

What difference can a bunch of photographers make?" Rosier sneered. "Most of them look as though they're a hamburger away from a heart attack. — Kirsten Miller

Oh, yeah, any functioning society has got to have its doctors, its teachers, and its nightlife photographers. — Leila Sales

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

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

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized. — Duane Michals

I want to try out for Playmate actually. I talked to one of the photographers about doing test shots. — Trishelle Cannatella

I love going out and it is a bit sad when the photographers stop asking you for your picture. — Alice Evans

Photographers have always been each other's biggest fans. — Rick Smolan

There are many points of views. We as photographers immortalize the existence of an isolated view. — Jon Luvelli

One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work. — Mary Ellen Mark

Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up. — Bill Jay

I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography. — Joan Fontcuberta

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

I print giclees for artists and photographers for a livelihood. My original idea was to somehow combine the two. — Donald Lambert

Photographers undervalue the use of the wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography. — Ralph Steiner

Grunge came from a group of English photographers, and they were documenting their own reality ... I'm South American - we celebrate life. — Mario Testino

Many photographers are consumed with the idea of making beautiful contact sheets. I am far more interested in making the best final print I can. — John Sexton

All photography is Pop, and all photographers are crazy ... they feel guilty since they don't have to do very much - just push a button. — Andy Warhol

It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean. — Barbara Kruger

Most photographers work best alone, myself included. — Elliott Erwitt

We don't have only two eyes; we have hundreds of wonderful eyes, because there are hundreds of wonderful photographers! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers. — Charles Baudelaire

Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button. — Andy Warhol

Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation. — Marc Riboud

I believe Photoshop is in some way the contemporary darkroom, the creative area that all photographers have available today. — Douglas Kirkland

Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems. — Jessa Crispin

Not only is Cinderella Castle the symbol of the Magic Kingdom, it is also the most photographed item by amateur photographers in the entire world. — Brent Dodge