1252 quotes by photographers for you to enjoy

Each time I arrived in a new city, I'd get lost in the streets and photograph everything that looked interesting, taking nearly a thousand photographs every day. After each day of shooting, I'd select 30 or 40 of my favorite photographs and post them on Facebook. I named the albums after my first impression of each city. Brandon Stanton

Time Day Facebook Every Day Post First Lost Every Everything Favorite Photograph Thousand City Photographs Select Taking New Named First Impression Looked Arrived Impression Get Shooting After Interesting Them Each Each Day Each Time Nearly Streets Albums

Social media is a superimposing place where people are usually bragging. Brandon Stanton

People Social Media Bragging Where Place Social Media

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

Love Great Enough Photographer Anybody

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. Dorothea Lange

You Tomorrow Stricken Though Blind Camera Really Should Use

I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera. Dorothea Lange

Believe Living Camera Using

A camera teaches you how to see without a camera. Dorothea Lange

You See Without How Camera Teaches

I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it. Dorothea Lange

Animal Quality Courage Recognize See Highest Undeniable Learned Said Real Encountered Heard Times Unexpected Human Human Animal Places Many

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

Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry. Ernst Haas

Creative Speak Will Made Pure Picture Composed Seeing Touching More Poetry Through Taken Prose Come Concentration Without Becomes Subject Existence Itself Than Want Informative Justify Less Moment Caption Descriptive Suggestive

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

Work Friendship Together People Chemistry Pleases Photographer Highly Between Long-Term Pictures Geometry Continue End Up Personal Often Which Work Together Produce Professional Star Right Images Two Two People

There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and someone else will take it further on, you know. Gordon Parks

You Yourself People Will Other Else Further Out Horizon Someone More Take Know Make Another Discover

I think its important to start the day with a proper breakfast. Hanneli Mustaparta

Day Important Breakfast Think Proper Start

I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you. Harold Feinstein

Life Love Saying You Photography Joy Witness Will Looking Breath Extraordinary Way Has-Been Find Seeing Bearing Feel Catching Pictures Like Look Always Am Been Oh Ordinary Ordinary Life Your

It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room. Helmut Newton

Woman Car White Live Backgrounds Paper Hotel Hotel Room Like She Does Motor Motor Car Front Room Lives Street

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

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. Henri Cartier-Bresson

Great Reality Joy Breath Photograph Physical Faculties Mastering Becomes Intellectual Precise Hold Converge Fleeting Moment Capture Image

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