Famous quotes by Photographers

"The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big, he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs"

Gordon Parks, Photographer

"But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived"

Gordon Parks, Photographer

"I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it"

Gordon Parks, Photographer

"You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery"

Gordon Parks, Photographer

"There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and someone else will take it further on, you know"

Gordon Parks, Photographer

"The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good, and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, Kodak gave me my first exhibition"

Gordon Parks, Photographer

"Washington, D.C., in 1942, was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along"

Gordon Parks, Photographer

"I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out"

Gordon Parks, Photographer

"I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done"

Gordon Parks, Photographer

"I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand"

Gordon Parks, Photographer

"People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other"

Gordon Parks, Photographer

"I've been with Life now for seventeen years, and I have written several articles for them, and will be doing more writing, and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing"

Gordon Parks, Photographer

"And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I'm just ready to start"

Gordon Parks, Photographer

"All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left"

Cecil Beaton, Photographer

"More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure"

Cecil Beaton, Photographer

"On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser"

Cecil Beaton, Photographer

"Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me"

Cecil Beaton, Photographer

"I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue"

Cecil Beaton, Photographer

"Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... Airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash"

Cecil Beaton, Photographer

"Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly"

Cecil Beaton, Photographer

"San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities"

Cecil Beaton, Photographer

"Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore"

Cecil Beaton, Photographer

"We sometimes freeze the specimen with liquid nitrogen, which is extremely cold, you know. This is another technique we use now - but the specimens are not alive"

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer

"It's to surprise people about something that is extremely well known. I mean, human reproduction, the human body, nature, and so on. To surprise them with a new technique"

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer

"For the animals, they came from the University in Uppsala and all different kinds of clinics here"

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer

"And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers"

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer

"The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep"

Paul Strand, Photographer

"While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph"

Lewis Hine, Photographer

"The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street"

Robert Doisneau, Photographer

"I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists"

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer

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