Photographer Quotes - Page 11

Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.

I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.

Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists.

A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.

When I make a picture, I make love.

Astonish me! (Instruction to photographers)

Believe in yourself. Listen to the photographers you work with, and try to be professional at all time.

I am a perfectionist. When I take a picture...it's gotta be good.

Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion is present, the result is almost invariably affirmative.

We know photographers make frames, but we deeply believe they can also create frameworks.

One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch the birdie! is essentially a stage direction.

For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.

My way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things.

Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.

To convulse reality from within, to demonstrate it as fractured spacing, became the collective result of all that vast range of techniques to which surrealist photographers resorted and which they understood as producing the characteristics of the sign.

For a photographer, it's a necessity that you can shoot stuff magically. Accidents are necessary, but after I take the photograph, it's not over. I work on it more.

I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

The subject isn't always a help to the photographer, it's like handcuffs.

There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.

Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single, pair or triplet of essential images.

I've been a photographer for my whole life and I've done everything with photography that I felt I could do, and I always wanted to be a filmmaker.

I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the symbols in this image and any content that I have in mind.

It is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing.

Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.