Photographer Quotes - Page 4

The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I’ve lost control of it.

I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them?

Of course it's all luck.

It should be the aim of every photographer to make a single exposure that shows everything about the subject. I have been told that my portrait of Churchill is an example of this.

The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.

I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, photographers are worth a million.

If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

I have gradually confused photography with life.

As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers.

Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.

I’m really just using the mirror to summon something I don’t even know until I see it.

I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.

I was an amateur - I am an amateur - and I intend to stay an amateur. To me an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs.

Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest—yes. Objective—no.

Photographers are always imposing

A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.