Famous quotes by Photographers

"Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, they are in the archives"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... It didn't have enough information"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"A very subtle difference can make the picture or not"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary"

David Bailey, Photographer

"All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead"

David Bailey, Photographer

"When I die, I want to go to Vogue"

David Bailey, Photographer

"A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - It did for me"

David Bailey, Photographer

"I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked"

David Bailey, Photographer

"It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse"

David Bailey, Photographer

"Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions"

David Bailey, Photographer

"Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that"

David Bailey, Photographer

"Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man"

Edward Steichen, Photographer

"Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things"

Edward Steichen, Photographer

"I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself"

Edward Steichen, Photographer

"Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants"

Edward Steichen, Photographer

"Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates"

Bill Brandt, Photographer

"Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field"

Bill Brandt, Photographer

"There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record"

Yousuf Karsh, Photographer

"I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create"

Yousuf Karsh, Photographer

"Photography is a major force in explaining man to man"

Edward Steichen, Photographer

"The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone"

Yousuf Karsh, Photographer

"If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity"

Yousuf Karsh, Photographer

"Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper, the photographer begins with the finished product"

Edward Steichen, Photographer

"Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can"

Yousuf Karsh, Photographer

"When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration"

Edward Steichen, Photographer

"When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself"

Edward Steichen, Photographer

"There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism"

Edward Steichen, Photographer

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