Photographer Quotes - Page 12

I don't go out looking for pictures. I go out, and if something catches my eye, that's reason enough to photograph it.

While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.

A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer.

I am not used to doing naked shoots but when you trust the photographer and the crew, you know it won't be vulgar.

A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar.

If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.

To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.

I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely heard of them.

I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.

For me, it's easier to like more things than to dislike them; I'm not a critic in that sense. I find it easier to like more, to be more open and enjoy more things, which has given me more opportunities.

Believing in one’s own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder.

Get yourself in trouble. If you get yourself in trouble, you don't have the answers. And if you don't have the answers, your solution will more likely be personal because no one else's solutions will seem appropriate. You'll have to come up with your own.

I fell into this thing by accident. I was never supposed to be a photographer.

The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal to his own interests will he produce a work of distinction.

Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others.

If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.

No one can do inspired work without genuine interest in his subject and understanding of its characteristics.

There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.

The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.

... to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs.

It's unarguable to say that every one of us has been moved by the beauty of what I have called snapshots, but for photographers they are charms and proverbs, and like lightening or wild strawberries.

I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.

Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid mental images of scenes I cared for and failed to photograph. It is the edgy existence within me of these unmade images that is the only assurance that the best photographs are yet to be made.

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.

It is necessary to like loneliness to be photographer