177 Photographer Quotes for You to Enjoy

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? Pablo Picasso

Face Mirror Correctly Photographer Sees Human Human Face Who Painter

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

You Better Photographer See More Pictures

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary. David Bailey

Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what's far out and what's reality. And they have no dedication to truth. Helen Thomas

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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance. Nancy Pelosi

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It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country. Bill Brandt

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The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting. Caleb Deschanel

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Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love. David Bailey

Love Great Enough Photographer Anybody

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

Better Think Photographer Pictures Amateur Maybe Being Apart Professional

If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images. Eve Arnold

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Technically, I have not changed very much. Ask my assistants. They'll tell you, I am the easiest photographer to work with. I don't have heavy equipment. I work out of one bag. Helmut Newton

Work You Technically Changed Easiest Out Tell Photographer Bag Equipment Am Very Heavy Work Out Ask Much Assistants

I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer. Irving Penn

Long Enough Photographer Obsessed Look Get Being Curse Anything

I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance. Keanu Reeves

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A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields. Norman Parkinson

Photographer Magazine Like Him Without Behind Fields Farmer

When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera. Patrick Demarchelier

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The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to know what you stand for, no? Most people just take pictures, but they stand for nothing. They follow trends and don't know why. Peter Lindbergh

Fashion You People Important Nothing Trends Photographer Follow Take Pictures Know Most Just Stand Standpoint Even Why

People are at their best when they can be natural. And that's the hardest thing as a photographer. Platon

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I always wanted to be the underdog. For me, as a portrait photographer, it's the kiss of death to become well known. I did my best work when no one knew who I was. People weren't threatened by me because they didn't think I was a big deal. Platon

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I grew up in this industry. I'm a third generation actor, and I believe strongly that life and career are two different things. Career is inside my life. I'm also a photographer, a pianist, and lots of different things, so my life consists of so many different elements that there are moments when I have to step away and be me. Alaina Huffman

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The Narrator of 'A Sport and a Pastime' is an American photographer living in a borrowed house in what he calls 'the real France,' Autun, a small town where he hopes to take some career-changing photographs in the spirit of Atget. Alexander Chee

As a photographer, there are times when I have to decide if it's appropriate to invade a moment with my camera. Amanda de Cadenet

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I always feel safe with a woman photographer. I feel that no matter how they interpret something, they understand all sides of it because they are women, and women are complex creatures. Amber Valletta

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