Photographer Quotes - Page 10

If you're not a curious person, you're certainly not going to be a good photographer.

A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.

The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels...

A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.

Photography is my only language.

Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.

I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life.

Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!

In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.

... the possibility of one particular photographer's pictures lying around the corner is never realized until the photographer is there. It's one of the enigmas of photography.

It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.

Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.

I wanted to be the photographer of happiness.

I believe that photography loves banal objects, and I love the life of objects.

I never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is creative or not?

I'm inviting the spirits into my photography. It's an act of God.

Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.

When a photographer chooses a subject, he or she is making a claim on the interest and attention of future viewers, a prediction about what will be thought to have been important.

You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.

A picture should be looked at - not talked about.

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.

Contrast is what makes photography interesting.

I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.