Quotes by Photographers

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively. Jock Sturges

Photographer Make Really Hard

They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left. Jock Sturges

Before Clothes Without Got Were Left

There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations. Jock Sturges

Thought Would Photographs Take Taken Without Any Now

Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. I don't shoot that any more. Jock Sturges

People Evidence Recognize See Angles Something More Red Sin Make Shoot Any Which Certain Avoid Original Original Sin Now

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me. Jock Sturges

Me Shame Errand Person Any Anybody Who Last Desire

The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy. Jock Sturges

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off. Jock Sturges

Age Live Magnitude Like Anonymity Off Going Where Growing Bomb

Physical beauty is such a strange thing. Jock Sturges

Strange Beauty Physical Strange Thing Thing

Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful. Jock Sturges

Beautiful Will Think Members Some Some Things Cultures Different Different Cultures Things

There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will. Jock Sturges

Will Animals Other Evidence Particular Does Always Aesthetic Mammals Any Interest Lower Sapiens Homo Homo Sapiens

When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work. Joel Sternfeld

Work You Power Think Unity Reach Squares

A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs. Joel Sternfeld

Must Photographer Choose Painters Palette

Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged. Joel Sternfeld

Respect Photographs Him Due Burned Even

I grew up in Belle Harbor, which is in New York City, but it has the most powerful sense of nature and seasons. It wasn't even the beach and the water. I just dreamt about everything that had to do with nature. I read about Thoreau. Joel Sternfeld

Nature Water Sense Everything City Dreamt About Beach Had Powerful New Most Most Powerful Read Up York Just New York New York City Grew Which Harbor Even Seasons Belle

The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype. Joel Sternfeld

Time Digital Our Our Time Like Look Print Makes Becoming Start

I see through my eyes; the camera is just a machine to record it for me. Juergen Teller

Me Eyes Machine See Record Through Camera Just

Everything I choose to photograph, I think is beautiful. Juergen Teller

Beautiful Think Everything Photograph Choose

Back in 2000, I didn't have a mobile phone. Juergen Teller

Phone Back Mobile