Best 623 quotes in «photographer quotes» category

I know that sometimes the chemistry just isn't there between the model, photographer, hair and make-up. It's nobody's fault and you just have to do better next time.

I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

I laughed at the whole Cannes Film Festival thing because it didn't feel real. I remember getting off the red-eye when I arrived in France. I had a cowboy had on and some zit medicine, and there were like 15 photographers who jumped over the luggage carousel to take pictures of me.

I like boring things.

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

I like to be the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. But usually being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space is worth it, because something funny always happens.

I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.

Ill always be an amateur photographer.

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

I love photography. Photographers and photos. I took a ton of pictures in Paris, and I find that I'm most inspired by following other photographers on Instagram.

I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it.

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.

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

I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.

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

I'm kind of a twisted social documentary photographer.

I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.

I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.

I’m so worried that I’m going to perfect [my] technique someday. I have to say its unfortunate how many of my pictures do depend upon some technical error.

In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.

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.

In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and a visionary. Patient accumulation of facts and then speculation about their meaning is the nature of authorship in both mediums.

I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision.

I never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is creative or not?

I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them in your hand.

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

In every photographer there is something of a stroller.

I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject at the time the pictures were made. That's all that any photographer can claim. I do not know any great photographer who would presume otherwise.

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

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.

In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

I photograph only something that has to do with me, and I never did anything that I did not want to do. I do not do editorial and I never do advertising. No, my freedom is something I do not give away easily.

In the arts there are many right answers.

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation.

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.

I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.

I see no reason for recording the obvious.

Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times?

It is necessary to like loneliness to be photographer

It 2001 when we started. But prior to that, I had made this website called sundancepics.com, where me and this other photographer, Randall Michelson, could sell our images from Sundance online and it was successful. Steve Granitz, who's my main partner at WireImage, we were already working together, and I was like, "Look dude, this is it. We can do this.

I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg.

I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in.

I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the symbols in this image and any content that I have in mind.

It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly, as a result of a deep inner experience, with all of oneself, and that becomes 'art' in time.

It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have always felt strongly that this was the photographer's true vocation.

I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.

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

I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.