Quotes by Photographers

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

Horses are prey animals, and most of the other animals that I've shot are predators. If you act mellow with predators, they know that they can kill you, so they are cool, but if you work with prey, they think that you're going to kill them at any moment. Jill Greenberg

Work You Animals Think Other Mellow Horses Prey Know Most Any Going Predators Them Shot Act Moment Cool

Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city. Joel Sternfeld

Nature People Some People Consider City Some Derived Utopia

Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping. Julia Margaret Cameron

Back Spiral Itself Process Doubling Growth

We need to recover our true nature by relocating ourselves on this planet, being respectful of our environment, and living in harmony with other species - like a big family. Laurent Baheux

Family Nature Big Living Other Harmony Our Respectful Ourselves Recover Environment True Like True Nature Big Family Being Planet Species Need

I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me. Linda McCartney

Me Money Simplicity Answer Lot Need

We spend so much time together, because that's how we like it. I never used to go on girl's nights out, even at school. And Paul has never liked going out for a night with the boys, either. Linda McCartney

We have lasted this long close together, so we must have something going for each other. Linda McCartney

Together Long Lasted Other Must Something Close Going Each

When Paul was arrested in Japan for having hash in his luggage, I thought he'd be out that night. But it became really serious stuff when he was kept in a cell. I became more fearful as the days went by. Linda McCartney

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them. Man Ray

Dreams Determination Record Object Never Been Just Them Realize

All critics should be assassinated. Man Ray

Critics Should

Capturing a beautiful moment in a photo is something I'm very passionate about. Nigel Barker

Beautiful Photo About Something Passionate Very Moment Capturing

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

Work Time You First Eye Photographer Because Camera Your

I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through. Patrick Demarchelier

Beautiful Woman Clever Beauty Older Through Like Because Shines Older Woman

There's something else that makes a woman interesting, something beyond being young or being old. And I'm going to find out what that something else is before I die, I hope. Peter Lindbergh

Hope Woman Old Before Young Else Out Find Something Something Else Beyond Makes Die Going Being Interesting

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

Best Natural People Photographer The Hardest Thing Hardest Hardest Thing Thing

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

Work Death Best Me People Kiss Big Become Think Photographer Best Work Threatened No-One Knew Underdog Well Well Known Known Because Deal Always Big Deal Were Did Wanted Who Portrait

How many pictures have you torn up because you hate them? What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they're screaming the next minute. I've never seen a family album of screaming people. Richard Avedon

Good Family You Man Hate People Seen Torn Minute Guy Adorable Never Pictures Like Look Because How Up Family Man Screaming Ends Where Children Them Next Your Many Good Family Album Good Guy

Some of the pictures in 'The Human Face of Big Data' will bring tears to your eyes; others are so surprising or memorable that you just have to show them to your friends and family. Rick Smolan

Programmers have been wandering out and shooting a shotgun into the night sky and hoping they hit something, and I end up paying $150 for channels full of nothing I want to watch. Rick Smolan

Sky Nothing Channels Out Hoping Something Been End Up Hit Shooting Wandering Want Shotgun Full Paying Watch Night Programmers

It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one. Robert Capa

Unable Easy Record Except Around Always Anything Aside Stand Sufferings

Beauty and the devil are the same thing. Robert Mapplethorpe

Devil Beauty Same Thing Same Thing