Famous quotes by Photographers

"As an artist, you have to have a certain amount of arrogance"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine"

Andres Serrano, Photographer

"All critics should be assassinated"

Man Ray, Photographer

"It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use"

Sam Abell, Photographer

"Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts"

Walker Evans, Photographer

"You know the problem, we don't want to believe what we know"

Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Photographer

"There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph"

Robert Frank, Photographer

"When I married Paul, we lived in St John's Wood in London. We had nice next-door neighbours, but you don't know anyone else. Everyone lives in isolation"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!"

Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Photographer

"Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual"

Edward Weston, Photographer

"You don't take a photograph, you make it"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly, and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"These people live again in print, as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they, in turn, seem to be aware of me"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"I didn't have any interest in traditional art"

Cindy Sherman, Photographer

"Every time you have to come up with a new body of work for a new show, you're aware that people are just ready to rip you apart, they're just waiting for you to fall or make the slightest trip up"

Cindy Sherman, Photographer

"I think I always resented the fact that people thought I was trying to entertain them with my multifaceted, chameleonlike character changes. Although I liked doing that, I wasn't out to fool people and say 'Guess which one is me.'"

Cindy Sherman, Photographer

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