Photographer Quotes - Page 5

What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.

We [photographers] have the tools and the power to create images - we should try to make them as truthful as possible.

A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe.

Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere.

I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

Good photography is unpretentious.

If I could be said to have any kind of aesthetic, it's sort of a magpie aesthetic - I just go and pick up whatever is around. If you think about it, the children were there, so I took pictures of my children. It's not that I'm interested in children that much or photographing them - it's just that they were there.

The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business.

Great photography is always on the edge of failure.

Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and maybe the profession will come after.

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph

I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own.

I didn't take inspiration from other photographers, which in a way helped to find my own images.

Photography is a language more universal than words.

Always shoot it now. It won't be the same when you go back.

It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.

The wandering photographer sees the same show that everyone else sees. He, however, stops to watch it.

My name is Weegee. I'm the world's greatest photographer.

I work rather blindly. I have a theory that seems to work with me that some of the best things you ever do sort of come through you. You don't know where you get the impetus and response to what's before your eyes.

I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.

I'm a very, very basic photographer. The main strength of my pictures, I guess, is the mood and feel I get out of the people that I meet. But technically I don't think I'm very advanced. That never interested me.