Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tupac Shakur

If a picture is worth a thousand words, photographers are worth a million.

W. Eugene Smith

The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest—yes. Objective—no.

Sam Abell

My least favorite photographer to have would be myself. Someone who wanted a career at National Geographic. Because it's almost mathematically impossible to achieve that.

Elliott Erwitt

I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.

Elliott Erwitt

Most photographers work best alone, myself included.

John Berger

A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory. These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.

Berenice Abbott

I haven't seen too many images that have impressed me!

Dorothea Lange

Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.

David Bailey

I never set out to be a photographer.

Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.

Annie Leibovitz

If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.

Susan Sontag

Photographers are always imposing

I never thought I would become a photographer.

Robert Adams

The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.

Stephen Sondheim

Only capitalists get photographers.

Sidney Poitier

I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me.

Marina Warner

When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

John Szarkowski

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

Jean Cocteau

A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.

Garry Winogrand

I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

In every photographer there is something of a stroller.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight.

Christopher Anderson

I fell into this thing by accident. I was never supposed to be a photographer.

Jelena Jankovic

Some of the angles that photographers get on court are not always flattering.

Bill Brandt

The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal to his own interests will he produce a work of distinction.