Photographer Quotes - Page 14

A natural-born photographer, with hypo in my blood.

a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.

If I had seven lives, I'd be a photographer in every one.

There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.

I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.

When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.

You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it.

Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new

You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.

One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself.

If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriately scaled subject for reshaping is ourselves.

I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision.

My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.

A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.

Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out and went round the corner to the local supermarket because this to me is the front line.

Have the utmost respect for your subjects. Love them.

I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can

We see the world through our experience.

I have to say, taking photographs is such an instantaneous act. The recognition and the acting on the recognition, depending on your equipment, is close to instantaneous.

A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale and say 'Wow!'

I try to begin working with no preconceived ideas.

Some of the angles that photographers get on court are not always flattering.

I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer.

One shouldn’t be only two photographers but thousands.

Photography is something you learn to love very quickly. I know that many, many things are going to ask me to have their pictures taken and I will take them all.