Photographer Quotes - Page 24

[Photography] underlines the photographer. That's the Barthesian this has been. Well, this has been for the photographer as well. The photographer is the hidden placeholder in the Barthesian equation.

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?

I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.

Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.

I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious.

The mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us.

I'm very lucky that I've worked mainly with two amazing photographers in David Sims and Steven Meisel.

When you respect somebody who has talent, whether it's a designer or a photographer, then you don't want to let yourself down - but you also really don't want to let them down.

A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work.

Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer

I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict.

There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers I have no interest in at all.

I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.

I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.

If I could find them (assemblages) in nature I would photograph them. I make them because through photography I have a knowledge of things that can't be found.

Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities.

In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation.

For me, the best part is people who watch the movie and tell me it inspired them to collaborate with their friend who's a photographer or filmmaker.

A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contrived images that usually stem from this genre.

Don't park... Arrival is the death of inspiration.

Only a vision - that is what one must have.

The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances...a tiny relationship - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture.

My responsibility as a photographer, to my subjects, is to know what's going to happen with my images.

Photographers want to reinvent you, to take you somewhere else, to show you in a completely different way. They look at your previous work, and try to figure out what they can do to show a new side of you.

My 'work' is about seeing not about ideas.