Photographer Quotes - Page 3

Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

There is no particular reason to search for meaning.

For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers.

Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.

I like to be the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. But usually being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space is worth it, because something funny always happens.

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

To become a photographer leave your house first.

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

If you want to be a photographer, you have to photograph.

Working myself into a position of total versatility, so that I can do anything I want to do at the time I want to do it. Whether I do it or not is another question.

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

If I already have a vision, my work is almost done. The rest is a technical problem.

Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.

A creative photographer is one who either captures mystery or reveals things, everything else is useless

You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or by watching someone do it.

Photography just gets us out of the house.

The immortal photographers will be straightforward photographers, those who do not rely on tricks or special techniques.

The head of the photographer is more important than his camera

These elites, preferring to work in private, are rarely found posed for photographers, and their influence upon events has therefore to be deduced from what is known of the agencies they employ.

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

You can take a good picture of anything. A bad one, too.

All photographs are self-portraits.

Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.