Photographer Quotes - Page 13

The only thing we photographers really want more than life, more than sex, more than anything, is to be invisible.

Even in the nineties, when it was mad and there were photographers all around the house, it never occurred to me to send someone else out to get cigarettes. It took me five minutes - went for a walk, gave a wave, went back inside.

It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they originate in urges that are rarely satisfied with single images.

Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography.

I've had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or for film posters.

A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself.

Photography is truth.

I love when pictures ask questions or make others ask questions.

We photographers are poets in the language of symbols.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.

To be a good hairdresser, you have to understand what the vision is of the designer or the photographer and then sort of add your thing.

The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.

We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted.

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.

No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras

Was it the same light that enchanted the first photographers? It is the same, and it is still brand new - it is something that never wears out.

It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.

I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject at the time the pictures were made. That's all that any photographer can claim. I do not know any great photographer who would presume otherwise.

There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed, and a high correlation between left-handedness and learning disabilities.

Predators and prey always coexist. That's why we have galleries as well as photographers.

It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.

It is a rare photographer who can take a detached, cold-blooded view of his work.

The inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or it becomes the solitary cell of the neurotic.

I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer.

You become technically proficient whether you want to or not, the more you take pictures.