Photographer Quotes - Page 2

I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

I wanted to show the thing that had to be corrected: I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated.

I’ve noticed that the people who started on film still have the ability to see the person in front of them. Whereas for a lot of photographers who have only ever worked in digital, the relationship between the photographer and the person who they’re taking a picture of sort of doesn’t exist anymore. They’re looking at a computer screen as opposed to the person.

Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

You have to focus on what you are doing, not just as a photographer, but as a human being.

Photography is a love affair with life.

The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness.

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself.

I don't trust words. I trust pictures.

Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.

There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

Photography is just light remembering itself.

Photographers can create moments that will never happen again but last a lifetime.

A photographer's reality is what he or she wants to show.

A camera exposes more than just an image. It also exposes the photographer.

If it doesn’t have ambiguity, don’t bother to take it. I love that, that aspect of photography - the mendacity of photography. It’s got to have some kind of peculiarity in it, or it’s not interesting to me.

Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.

Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.

Take pictures of what you fear.

I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.