Photographer Quotes - Page 17

Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.

Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!

Let us not be afraid to allow for post-visualization. By post-visualization I refer to the willingness on the part of the photographer to revisualize the final image at any point in the entire photographic process.

They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important.

The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough?

There are no photographs while I'm reloading .

Art and accident are one.

Art accepts what it finds.

You have to devote yourself totally to be successful at it.

I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.

My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature.

I've never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning - but some phase of photographer I've always been.

...I would never choose a subject for what it means to me. I choose a subject and then what I feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold.

Photographer's advice: Stand in the right place.

I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

We are extremely precise about the girls we like; they're not necessarily the "It" girls of the season. Sometimes this "It" girl business gets a bit hysterical. It's all about which girl did which shoot with which photographer.

I do go very fast. I think if I don't go fast it's going to be boring. That's what photographers need to do.

Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese.

The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form.

The photographic image has great possibilities. The magical photograph attempts to go beyond the immediate context of the recorded experience into the realm of the indefinable. The photographer as magician is acutely aware of the multiplicity of associations submerged in the appearance of the objective world.

Publicity is like eating peanuts. Once you start you can’t stop.

Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button.

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

I admire photographers that don't need a destination. In some ways, street photography is like that. There's a quality of wanderlust for sure in my work, but I need a destination.

A photographer doesn't just copy reality, but communicates to others what he or she experiences.