Famous quotes by Photographers

"I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas"

Helmut Newton, Photographer

"They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure"

Helmut Newton, Photographer

"I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen"

Helmut Newton, Photographer

"I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it"

Berenice Abbott, Photographer

"Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death"

Berenice Abbott, Photographer

"Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past"

Berenice Abbott, Photographer

"Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself"

Berenice Abbott, Photographer

"Well, now I'm an old photographer and I still don't sell"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"The gallery is generating work for the masses"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"The darkroom is just the means to an end"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"No matter how fast I could do it with the digital camera, I don't think I would get the same thing out of it. The passion I have for formulating an idea stands alone. It is the important essence of what I do"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"My surprises come usually once I start rolling and photographing"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"My son does a little photography, but he's not involved the way I was"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you're fulfilling that inner need, and for me the need is more the process than the finished product. My photographs are stories of the process"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"In front of the camera, I look and I see visually what I've created"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"Whenever possible, I operate outside the system"

Andres Serrano, Photographer

"Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously"

Andres Serrano, Photographer

"Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures"

Andres Serrano, Photographer

"People have to find ways of explaining the work"

Andres Serrano, Photographer

"Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa"

Andres Serrano, Photographer

"My work is intensely personal"

Andres Serrano, Photographer

"If you're not going to tell something, if you're not going to expose something, it's real easy to go in and photograph from behind the camera, and not expose any of your weaknesses"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"If no one wants to jump into a Kim Weston and drive it down the street. That's fine with me; I don't care. I know my work is good and I know it's serious work"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"I tried painting for a short time, and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"I think the digital camera would record that information too fast for me"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"I think all photographers fit their vision to their personality"

Kim Weston, Photographer

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