Famous quotes by Photographers

"I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long"

Walker Evans, Photographer

"You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it"

Robert Frank, Photographer

"A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes"

Sam Abell, Photographer

"When I first toured with Wings, things that were said about me were true - I did sing out of tune"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"I won't be having any more kids, though. Four is enough"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"We spend so much time together, because that's how we like it. I never used to go on girls' nights out, even at school. And Paul has never liked going out for a night with the boys, either"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind of people to live together permanently"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph"

Robert Frank, Photographer

"I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality"

Robert Frank, Photographer

"Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected"

Robert Frank, Photographer

"Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished"

Robert Frank, Photographer

"We are really on top of one another at the moment and I think it is amazing how we stay so close. Maybe that's the test. Why not totally put yourself together, rather than always wonder whether you actually like each other?"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make"

Man Ray, Photographer

"When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society"

Man Ray, Photographer

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