Photographer Quotes

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? (Pablo Picasso)

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Susan Sontag

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

Helmut Newton

I am an artist first and a photographer second.

Andres Serrano

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.

Jock Sturges

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

Susan Sontag

With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!

David Hockney

What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: "Paint me just as I am." Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.

Aubrey Beardsley

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Walker Evans

The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I am benefiting from someone else's tragedy. This idea haunts me. It's something I have to reckon with every day because I know that if I ever allow genuine compassion to be overtaken by personal ambition, I will have sold my soul. The only way I can justify my role is to have respect for the other person's predicament. The extent to which I do that is the extent to which I become accepted by the other; and to that extent, I can accept myself. (James Nachtwey)

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Ansel Adams

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

Ansel Adams

My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.'

Steffi Graf

I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.

Irving Penn

I've worked with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years, and we have this magnificent photographer, Tad Motoyama. He takes these wonderful, wonderful animal pictures. All through the years he's given me copies of these pictures. Well, I have all these gorgeous ones, so I said, 'Tad, I want to do a book with your picture on one side.'

Betty White

Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.

Yousuf Karsh

The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.

Bill Brandt

I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.

Bill Brandt

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer. (Imogen Cunningham)

I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'

David LaChapelle

The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.

Robert Mapplethorpe

I'll always be an amateur photographer.

Elliott Erwitt

A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of course. The framing of an image, by its very composition, represents a choice. The photographer chooses what to show and what to exclude.

Alexandra Kerry

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