The Photographer Quotes
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Although the photographer and the art thief were close friends, neither had ever taken the other's picture.
— George Carlin
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
— Ansel Adams
We see the world through our experience.
— John Paul Caponigro
I'm the world's most famous photographer, most sought after photographer, most awarded photographer.
— Peter Lik
The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
— Ansel Adams
The celebrity-making machine-photographers, paparazzi, press and stuff like that-can be ruthless.
— Catherine Keener
There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.
— Janet Malcolm
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
You have to pick the right tool for the point you're trying to make and there is no one solution.
— Jay Maisel
I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.
— Bill Eppridge
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
To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.
— John Szarkowski
It's like a malicious person lifting a photograph from the developing chemicals too early, and then pronouncing the photographer incompetent.
— John Taylor Gatto
Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture.
— Lisette Model
Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer
— Ken Jennings
The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness
— Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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
In conclusion, the idea of direction on the part of the photographer has its greatest value when its processes are least discernible to the spectator.
— Arthur Rothstein
The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.
— Joel Sternfeld
Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have.
— John Paul Caponigro
None of us is born with the right face. It's a tough job being a portrait photographer.
— Imogen Cunningham
A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure.
— Robert Doisneau
I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.
— Berenice Abbott
I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.
— George Bernard Shaw
If you're an actor, you're at the mercy of a script. You've got far more control if you're the photographer.
— Kathryn Prescott
The influence of mystery is the greatest influence.
— Paul Caponigro
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
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We [photographers] have the tools and the power to create images - we should try to make them as truthful as possible.
— Petra Collins
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
No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
— Edward Weston
Photographers undervalue the use of the wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography.
— Ralph Steiner
Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer.
— Andreas Feininger
The police photographer asks, Don't you wanna give us a smile? Come on. Give us a smile.
— Assata Shakur
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
I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
— Irving Penn
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
— Ansel Adams
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
The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world
— Jeanette Winterson
Cameras are like dogs, but dumb, and toward quarry, even more faithful. They point, they render, and defy the photographer who hopes.
— Tod Papageorge
You become technically proficient whether you want to or not, the more you take pictures.
— William Eggleston
Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ...
— John Szarkowski
A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars.
— Guy Le Querrec
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'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'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
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 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
I wanted to be the photographer of happiness.
— Malick Sidibe
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.
— Minor White
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
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
In the spirit of Vivian Maier, who worked unaided by any publication or commercial shooting, I set up the Emerging Photographer Fund
— David Alan Harvey
One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.
— Cindy Sherman
Al: Now, remind me, who's walking who down the aisle again?
— Lindsey Kelk
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
