Photographer Quotes - Page 25

Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?

I find myself every so often looking at my ground glass as though the unrecorded image might escape me!

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

Photographers aren't artists, for goodness sake.

I never want people to be repulsed with my pictures; I always want to attract people.

Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.

I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.

I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.

You just do what you love, and then a style happens later on.

I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.

You are not a photographer because you are interested in photography.

As a model you have to convey something with one look - and actors will have a scene and they can sort of do it, but models have to convey what photographers want. It's a bit of an art.

Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times?

I never set out to be a photographer.

When I revealed the campaign, some lady in the front row, a photographer, asked "is that airbrushed?" So I just lifted my shirt up and my stomach was the exact same thing as in the ads. It was actually kinda nice that she said that, because I'm sure plenty of people probably thought that. That's one of the reasons I did it - especially when you work so hard to get your body to look like that - it's frustrating.

The photographer in my head says: Give me peace. Flash. Give me release. Flash.

The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.

Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation.

Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.

We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers.

I'm a terrible photographer.I'm not being modest. My photos really are crap. But in a way, the more the photo is crap, the better to paint from.

The celebrity-making machine-photographers, paparazzi, press and stuff like that-can be ruthless.

I talk a lot about photography. It's cheap becuase my supply always exceeds demand.

True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists.

Discussions allow photographers to shuffle their prejudices