Photographer Quotes - Page 8

To me, pictures are like blintzes - ya gotta get 'em while they're hot.

The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.

I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.

If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning

Woman has been the target of much that is sordid and cheap, especially in photography. To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the image of woman, has been my mission.

I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it.

The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.

If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy.

I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight.

The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.

Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.

And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.

I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.

The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.

My idea was that if I took a picture of somebody and years later, or whenever, they would die and if someone wanted to know who this person was, they could take one of these pictures and it would tell who the person was.

The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism.

Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.

It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have always felt strongly that this was the photographer's true vocation.

Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.

I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.

What I did, anybody can do.

My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.'

One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.