Photographer Quotes - Page 9

It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!

A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t see.

Ill always be an amateur photographer.

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.

I wanted it to provide an escape route, I wanted to make pictures that were fantastic and took you into another world, one that was brighter. I started off with this idea.

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

Main thing is just to remember that hard work got me here and only hard work will keep me here.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly, as a result of a deep inner experience, with all of oneself, and that becomes 'art' in time.

There's always a time in any series of work where you get to a certain point and your work is going steadily and each picture is better than the next, and then you sort of level off and that's when you realize that it's not that each picture is better then the next, it's that each picture up's the ante. And that every time you take one good picture, the next one has got to be better.

The influence of mystery is the greatest influence.

Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a person - the life you lead - not your facade.

The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.

A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.

Never say you're going back - SHOOT IT NOW!

You always end up with too many pictures to edit and too few that you feel 'got it'.

To talk about photos rather than making them seems idiotic to me. It's as though I went on and on about a woman I adored instead of making love to her.

I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life.

There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy, it will be more difficult.

It's just seeing - at least the photography I care about. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Anyone can learn how to develop. It's how you organize what you see into a picture.