Famous quotes by Photographers

"I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don't know"

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer

"I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer"

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Photographer

"It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room"

Helmut Newton, Photographer

"In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors"

Helmut Newton, Photographer

"I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it"

Helmut Newton, Photographer

"I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera"

Helmut Newton, Photographer

"I did find a wonderful girl last year, but the photographs that we did were more about motorcars"

Helmut Newton, Photographer

"There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own"

Berenice Abbott, Photographer

"The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is"

Berenice Abbott, Photographer

"The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective"

Berenice Abbott, Photographer

"There is a new way with very, very tiny fiber optics, which give an enormous high resolution. There are many, many thousand fibers, very, very close together with a very small diameter"

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer

"That's the new way - with computers, computers, computers. That's the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in high resolution. We started about five years ago and, today, I think we have reached the target"

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer

"Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur"

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Photographer

"Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks"

Roger Caras, Photographer

"Cats don't like change without their consent"

Roger Caras, Photographer

"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole"

Roger Caras, Photographer

"Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will"

Robert Doisneau, Photographer

"Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time"

Robert Doisneau, Photographer

"There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing"

Roger Caras, Photographer

"The chemistry of love is something which is extremely extremely unbelievable. This is something we have planned for more than two years, so I hope that we are going to start in the beginning of next year"

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer

"Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel Prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique"

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer

"Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter"

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Photographer

"Keep it simple"

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Photographer

"I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough"

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Photographer

"And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb"

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer

"We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant"

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Photographer

"Well, it takes a certain amount of money. And I've got to see pictures of the person ahead of time. If I don't like the way the person looks, I won't do it"

Helmut Newton, Photographer

"My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain"

Helmut Newton, Photographer

"Technically, I have not changed very much. Ask my assistants. They'll tell you, I am the easiest photographer to work with. I don't have heavy equipment. I work out of one bag"

Helmut Newton, Photographer

"People gave us everything for free. We were allowed only so much film per picture, but there was no limit to the creativity. I like to say that they let us loose like wild dogs in the streets of Paris"

Helmut Newton, Photographer

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