Famous quotes by Photographers

"The pictures are there, and you just take them"

Robert Capa, Photographer

"In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on"

Robert Capa, Photographer

"I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave"

Robert Capa, Photographer

"For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner"

Robert Capa, Photographer

"I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph"

Richard Avedon, Photographer

"All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth"

Richard Avedon, Photographer

"Just advertising departments with legs and high heels"

Richard Avedon, Photographer

"I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable"

Richard Avedon, Photographer

"Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is... the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own"

Richard Avedon, Photographer

"After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme, but I needed a new challenge, so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public, my colour work wasn't reviewed"

Fay Godwin, Photographer

"Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training"

Fay Godwin, Photographer

"You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy"

Elliott Erwitt, Photographer

"Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist"

Elliott Erwitt, Photographer

"You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years"

Fay Godwin, Photographer

"The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph"

Fay Godwin, Photographer

"Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera"

Yousuf Karsh, Photographer

"Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most"

Philippe Halsman, Photographer

"Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness"

Yousuf Karsh, Photographer

"A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was"

Philippe Halsman, Photographer

"It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country"

Bill Brandt, Photographer

"And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment"

Bill Brandt, Photographer

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