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People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they're doing, or how their hair looks. Nobody see the person holding the camera. — Erica O'Rourke

I am not a photographer , I am a canon owner !!! — Walaa WalkademAgmal

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. — George Bernard Shaw

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

It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer. — Dorothea Lange

To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer. — Ansel Adams

I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.' — David LaChapelle

Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world. — Bruno Barbey

It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera — Sebastiao Salgado

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression. — Pablo Picasso

Notebook. No photographer should be without one! — Ansel Adams

Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference — Robert Frank

One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family; I was to be a photographer of peace. — Cornell Capa

A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

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

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

Capture the moment. It is your only sacred-memory. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Judging by the photograph it seemed like I hadn't been there at all. As if it was my camera that had been on holiday, and not me. — Ida Lokas

Words of wisdom for every photographer: 'Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking'. So said Goethe. — Bill Jay

It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed. — Sebastiao Salgado

Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life! — John Sexton

Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man. — Edward Weston

To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft. — John Szarkowski

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

Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher. — John Szarkowski

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

I'm inviting the spirits into my photography. It's an act of God. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

It's like a malicious person lifting a photograph from the developing chemicals too early, and then pronouncing the photographer incompetent. — John Taylor Gatto

You are not a photographer because you are interested in photography. — David Hurn

We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing? — John Paul Caponigro

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. — Susan Sontag

They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers. — Subcomandante Marcos

When the world asks "what was it like?" Only the photographer can say "See! — Mark Denman

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

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain. — Helmut Newton

The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera. — David Hurn

Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese. — Bill Jay

A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar. — Freeman Patterson

I don't know who said 'pictures don't lie.' It couldn't have been a photographer. — Linda Palmer

I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation. — Elliot Erwitt

You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there. — Eve Arnold

One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself. — Graciela Iturbide

Photoshop and Lightroom help me transform my photos into what my heart felt, but my camera couldn't quite capture! — Marius Vieth

I was making photographs of the world long before I was a photographer. — Marcey Jacobson

Beauty can be seen in all things ... — Matt Hardy

The photographer does the world a great disservice when he leaves his camera at home. — Mark Denman

Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul. — Marius Vieth

Photography is my only language. — Andre Kertesz

Discussions allow photographers to shuffle their prejudices — Bill Jay

It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

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

Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest. — Lisette Model

Why you like photography so much? Because it's just the camera and me showing everyone else what we can see. It's telling stories. — Lindsey Kelk

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

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

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

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

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

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

Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture. — Lisette Model

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography. — Martin Parr

[The] arresting of time is photography's unique capacity, and the decision of when to click the shutter is the photographer's chief responsibility. — Janet Malcolm

I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer. — Alfred Eisenstaedt

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

If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it. — Jay Maisel

There's this way that photography is always about going out searching. I'm not the kind of a photographer who can photograph my home. — Justine Kurland

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time. — Robert Doisneau

Photography is a love affair with life. — Burk Uzzle

First rule to be a photographer, you have to be invisible. — Sameh Talhamy

The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them. — Sid Grossman

Always seeing something, never seeing nothing, being photographer — Walter De Mulder

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

You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or by watching someone do it. — Nobuyoshi Araki

I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are. — Ellen Von Unwerth

A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better. — Minor White

You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business. — Elliott Erwitt

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

The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness — Yann Arthus-Bertrand