Photographer Quotes - Page 6

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

You are responsible for every part of your image, even the parts you’re not interested in.

If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

My ideas are not developed before I actually do the pieces.

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.

We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to others.

A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.

Most photographers work best alone, myself included.

Notebook. No photographer should be without one!

I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further than appreciating a picture that is a rectangle with an object in the middle of it, which they can identify.

Available light is any damn light that is available!

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

Every image is in some way a “portrait,” not in the way that it would reproduce the traits of a person, but in that it pulls and draws (this is the semantic and etymological sense of the word), in that it extracts something, an intimacy, a force.

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.

The photographer must be absorbent - like a blotter, allow himself to be permeated by the poetic moment... His technique should be like an animal function... he should act automatically.

The [concentration camps] were swarming with photographers and every new picture of horror served only to diminish the total effect. Now, for a short day, everyone will see what happened to those poor devils in those camps; tomorrow, very few will care what happens to them in the future.

Beauty can be seen in all things.

I want to be the toughest photographer in the world.

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.

The moment always dictates in my work. What I feel, I do. This is the most important thing for me. Everybody can look, but they don't necessarily see. I never calculate or consider; I see a situation and I know that it's right, even if I have to go back to get the proper lighting.

Basically I'm always looking for things. Any good photographer should always be looking for something, you know.

The photographer is filled with doubt. Nothing will soothe him.