1263 quotes by photographers for you to enjoy

I can bring in all these different components, and I marry these components, and I let them get traversed by the viewer, who reorganizes them. Rashid Johnson

Marry Components Get Different Them Viewer Who Bring

My photography is the result of being there at the right moment. Rene Burri

Photography Result Right Moment Being Moment Being There Right

I never had the time or luxury to think about inventing my own colour theory. When colour came, I was interested in expressing things that happened around me in time. Rene Burri

Time Me Luxury Own Think About My Own Inventing Colour Never Had Around Came Happened Interested Theory Expressing Things

Everyone takes pictures, so you need to have your own opinion. Rene Burri

You Own Everyone Takes Pictures Opinion Your Need

What counts is putting the intensity that you yourself have experienced into the picture. Otherwise it is just a document. Rene Burri

You Yourself Picture Otherwise Putting Counts Document Intensity Just Experienced

One of these days, I'm going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take. It is going to be a huge hit. Rene Burri

Book Publish Take Days Pictures Huge Hit Did Going

Looking back, I didn't have the patience to work in fashion. I like women so much, but I was never qualified to torture them in photo shoots. You have to be really tough and brutal. Rene Burri

For me, Picasso was the ultimate man. He taught me that photography is all about how you approach an image: what you do and what you don't do. He inspired me to go beyond what you think is in front of you. Rene Burri

Me You Man Photography Think Approach About Inspired Picasso He Beyond How Go Ultimate Front Taught Image

It took me six years to get close to Picasso. I learnt a lot from him, and he was an absolute genius. He almost became my grandfather at the time. It was like he was a magician or something. Rene Burri

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks. Richard Avedon

Knowledge Picture Photograph Photographed Photographic Wearing Someone He Part Looks Knows Does How Being Much Who Portrait

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. Richard Avedon

Me Sometimes Think Pictures Just

Camera lies all the time. It's all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you... the moment you've made a choice, you're lying about something larger. 'Lying' is an ugly word. I don't mean lying. But any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same. Richard Avedon

Time You Lie Ugly Word Made Lying Say Photographers Lies About Something Write Instead Picks Because Does Camera Same Any Artist Want Mean Choice Choose Chooses Moment Paint Larger

Click! In other words, I'm in a very controlling position, and I can bring... and I've already... if the camera's on you, your face is very concentrated. You're listening. You don't know what I'm going to say next, and now you're smiling. All these things are the things I work with. Richard Avedon

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. Richard Avedon

Me People Photograph About More Than Portraits

I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures. Richard Avedon

Myself Feeling See Guy Knew Pictures Like Look Always

Faces are the ledgers of our experience. Richard Avedon

Experience Our Faces

I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas. Richard Avedon

People Never Almost Ideas Always Am Stimulated

People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion. Richard Avedon

People Confusion Beauty Become Unprotected Isolated Intellect Roles Illness

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer. Richard Avedon

Photographer Never Artist Wanted

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. Richard Avedon

Photograph Fact Emotion Longer Opinion Transformed Moment

I always thought security was a joke at New York airports, and in U.S. airports to begin with. You can go through any European or Middle Eastern airport and things are a lot tougher. Richard Drew

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