Famous quotes by Photographers

"The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"My first thought is always of light"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"No photographer is as good as the simplest camera"

Edward Steichen, Photographer

"One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art, not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight, and understanding"

Edward Steichen, Photographer

"A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made"

Edward Steichen, Photographer

"The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth"

Edward Steichen, Photographer

"I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I can't have just anybody assisting me, I need somebody who I can really communicate with"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I like form and shape and strength in pictures"

Herb Ritts, Photographer

"At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it"

Gordon Parks, Photographer

"It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter"

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Photographer

"There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed"

Garry Winogrand, Photographer

"If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life"

Roger Caras, Photographer

"I am as confounded by dogs as I am indebted to them"

Roger Caras, Photographer

"Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees"

Paul Strand, Photographer

"It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness"

Paul Strand, Photographer

"When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear"

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Photographer

"Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts"

Garry Winogrand, Photographer

"You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid, formaldehyde, and then we have to do a rinsing, and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold"

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer

"I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream"

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer

"The whole series is black-and-white, so when I went to shoot one of the women I only had black-and-white film with me. She had reddish hair and was a very pretty girl, a nice girl"

Helmut Newton, Photographer

"I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it's very valid. But when established photographers, people in their forties, copy me and get a lot of money, well, I find that to be very stupid"

Helmut Newton, Photographer

"That's not to say that some day I won't go outside again, but I'm having a great time working on this process"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist"

Andres Serrano, Photographer

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