Photographer Quotes - Page 20

It's more difficult now, to be a Geographic photographer, than it was when I came along. And it wasn't easy at that time.

In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.

The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.

I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.

I can work with shyness, but for the most part I want people to feel comfortable with me. It's really more about the photographer feeing comfortable right when they walk in that makes the subject feel comfortable.

The thing about being a photographer that's so cool is that you get to participate, but you also get to disappear. The camera is in front of your face all the time.

I'm just a photographer, not a movie star.

Everything is one and I am one with it.

I always said 'yes' to everything.

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

I like photographers-you don't ask questions.

Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.

The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.

Almost all photographers have incurred large expenses in the pursuit of tiny audiences, finding that the wonder they'd hoped to share is something few want to receive.

The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.

Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.

I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.

I never thought I would become a photographer.

Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.

Photographers undervalue the use of a wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography.

Look, Matisse I ain't. You know how they have on the invitations, a reception for the artist will be held at... And I say, Look, you gotta change this. I'm not an artist. I'm a photographer, a skilled craftsman.

To be a photographer you must have something to say about the world.

Seek freedom within action.

Can you keep your balance? Can you see what and where you are at any given moment?