Famous quotes by Photographers

"Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare!"

Bill Brandt, Photographer

"I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations"

Bill Brandt, Photographer

"To make pictures big is to make them more powerful"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment"

Bill Brandt, Photographer

"A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere"

Bill Brandt, Photographer

"This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"You're never going to get anywhere in life if you don't live up to your obligations"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently!"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I'm not a photojournalist"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

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

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I wish I could be elegant"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I should try to get some sleep, as one doesn't know what tomorrow may bring"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I recorded that because it happened to me. I wasn't making a point"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I just want to be written about as a normal artist"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I just try to live my life and do my thing"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I don't think any collector knows his true motivation"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it?"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

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