Photographer Quotes - Page 19

It's my obligation to take out all the 'wrong' pictures.

Forget what it was. Look at what it is.

In every photographer there is something of a stroller.

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

The only way to understand something is to be confronted by something that is difficult to understand.

Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been?

You don’t take pictures, the good ones happen to you.

The camera cannot, but the photographer can.

Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer.

If you can imagine photography in the guise of a woman and you’d ask her what she thought of Stieglitz, she’d say: He always treated me like a gentleman.

Photographers don't need to be aggressive. Some are. Henry Benson is aggressive - but then he's from Fleet Street. If you can talk to people, you don't need to push people around.

What a photograph shows us is how a particular thing could be seen, or could be made to look - at a specific moment, in a specific context, by a specific photographer employing specific tools.

For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life.

My pictures are never pre-visualized or planned. I feel strongly that pictures must come from contact with things at the time and place of taking. At such times, I rely on intuitive, perceptual responses to guide me, using reason only after the final print is made to accept or reject the results of my work.

An artist must be ruthlessly selfish.

Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.

I don't know the American photographers as well, but I admit I love Ansel Adams. His landscapes are so crisp.

It would drive the photographers crazy because I would giggle and tell jokes. I was gregarious, and looking back, I realize I had a captive audience.

I didn't want to be a photographer. I wanted to play music and be a rock star. I didn't have a mentor telling me to take pictures and encouraging me. But when the music thing didn't work out, I became a photographer's assistant. And then I caught the bug.

It's quite difficult to write about photography as a photographer. A lot of better photographers than me have declined to do it.

Only capitalists get photographers.

I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me.

Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life.

I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.

You photograph with all your ideology.