177 Photographer Quotes for You to Enjoy

I don't have a favorite photo. As a photographer, I have attachments to each image. Not the one photo: the experience of getting the photos is the challenge or the thing. Michael Muller

Experience Challenge Favorite Photo Photographer Photos Getting Each Thing Image

Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine. Nancy Gibbs

Life War People Farm Earthquake Spent Out Photographer City Most His Camps Refugee Famine Want James Flattened Swallowed Places Avoid Professional Village Professional Life Flood Zone

I'm married to Kevin, a photographer whose career has put him on the campaign trail with presidential candidates and sent him on assignment to far-flung places for long periods of time. It was sometimes rough when our children were small, and I was beginning to write in earnest. Nancy Horan

Time Sometimes Long Beginning Earnest Our Presidential Married Photographer Small Write Long Periods Put Periods Him Were Campaign Trail Candidates Children Places Sent Rough Whose Assignment Career Kevin

My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender. Nick Park

Father Incurable Photographer Architectural Maker

I am always on the go; being a photographer, filmmaker, author and a father, things become stressful, and it is important to find time to escape for a few minutes. Nigel Barker

Time Father Important Become Few Photographer Find Minutes Always Am Go Escape Author Being Things Filmmaker Stressful

I've had shows as a painter, as a photographer, I've done shows as a sculptor. I've done a lot of different things and it all comes from experiences that you have in your life, in your creative environment. They all help - I don't even know if they help; maybe they make it worse but they all influence each other, for sure. Norman Reedus

Life You Creative Other Worse Photographer Had Environment Know Make Sure Lot Done Maybe Influence Different Experiences Sculptor Your Creative Environment Help Painter Even Shows Each Different Things Things

This bloke in Rome once took his camera off and cracked me round the head with it, and I'm bleeding. He was a bit bigger than me, the Italian photographer, but I thought, 'I can't back down now,' so I sort of squared up to him. Luckily, my mate jumped round and bit him on the neck. Pete Doherty

Me Thought Down Took Back Once Bit Photographer He Head Bleeding Him Sort Mate Camera His Italian Bloke Off Up Than Cracked Bigger Rome Luckily Now Round Neck

We will literally send a van and a photographer to the home of anybody that can say they can't get a picture made and a photo ID and we will do it... at the state's cost and the taxpayer cost and not at the individual cost. Phil Gingrey

Home Will Made Picture Taxpayer State Say Photo Photographer Van Cost Individual ID Get Send Anybody Literally

My first modeling job in Paris, the photographer said, 'Tue es belle,' which means, 'you are pretty,' and I thought he said, 'Tu es poubelle,' which means, 'you are the trash can.' I burst into tears. He was not happy about that. Rachel Nichols

You Happy Tears Job Thought First Photographer Pretty About Paris He Said Modeling Which Burst Means Trash Belle

I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV. Ree Drummond

TV Photographer Totally Writer Always Translate Aware

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

Photographer Never Artist Wanted

I came up, I suppose, a fairly traditional way. I went to art college. I always wanted to be a stills photographer, really, when I was younger, and I briefly worked as a stills photographer. Roger Deakins

Art College Way Photographer Suppose Fairly Always Came Traditional Traditional Way Art College Up Wanted Younger Worked Really

When I left art college, I was a still photographer for a year. Roger Deakins

Art College Year Photographer Still Art College Left

I've never, ever in my life touched a photographer. Some of the cruellest things I've ever said have been to photographers who are chasing me down the street, some of the sharpest, most efficient emotional barbs. And they know that in that moment, in that one-to-one wit competition, they just got smashed. Russell Crowe

Life Me Competition My Life Chasing Down Photographer Photographers Some Touched Emotional Never Sharpest Smashed Wit Know Most Said Got Been Efficient Just Moment Who Ever Street Things

It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image. Ryan McGinley

You Yourself Photographer Divorce Weird Because Being Really Image

I can work with shyness, but for the most part I want people to feel comfortable with me. It's really more about the photographer feeing comfortable right when they walk in that makes the subject feel comfortable. Ryan McGinley

Work Me People Walk Photographer About More Part Feel Most Comfortable Makes Subject Want Really Right Shyness

I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable. Sally Mann

Good Me Insecurity Photographer Pretty Writer Good Writer Feel Vulnerable Makes Always Person Regular Regular Person Pervasive Whose

I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality. Sam Abell

Photographer Mentality Known

A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes. Sam Abell

Work Needs World Mistakes Mad Out Photographer Make Get Keen

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