Photographer Quotes

Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.

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

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

We photographers say that we take a picture, and in a certain sense, that is true. We take something from people's lives, but in doing so we tell their story.

Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is incomprehensible, even inconceivable.

The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.

When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.

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

I am at war with the obvious.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.

Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.

A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure.

For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.

When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it, all of a sudden we discover something that we start seeing. I like this confusion.

The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.