Top 202 Photographer Quotes

The horrible thing is, as a model, it wasn’t that unusual to be in a weird situation where a photographer or someone feels they have a right to your body.

I met a Shanghai photographer who finds these old streets and matches the French names to what they are today. I was able to find my grandfather’s block, and just walking the same streets and finding his house was deeply moving. I finally felt connected to China.

What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake… spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer’s contribution to culture.

Over the years, my work became both my vocation and avocation. Since I enjoyed it so much, I never felt a great need to go outside for relaxation. Nevertheless, I became an avid photographer and traveler. Possibly my love for travel stems from the early years when my family seldom went away on vacation.

I was born in the Bay Area because my dad was a semi-professional photographer and poet who was really into John Coltrane. He’s had many lives. My dad’s a capitalist to his bone, but he’s also a human to his bone.

Digital photography makes you a better photographer.

The Narrator of ‘A Sport and a Pastime’ is an American photographer living in a borrowed house in what he calls ‘the real France,’ Autun, a small town where he hopes to take some career-changing photographs in the spirit of Atget.

The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation – not where the action is taking place, but where it’s going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they’re going to be.

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.

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.

It sounds really cheesy, but I’ve just really been so focused on making sure that I am nice to everyone that I work with and making the effort to get to know the people on set, whether it’s the catering crew or the famous photographer.

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.

Not long ago, every time I did a picture shoot for a magazine, the photographer would ask me to show up wearing jeans and cowboy boots. They seemed to think I was a hillbilly. Now it’s different. Now they’re not quite sure what to make of me. And I show up wearing whatever I want.

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

I’ve done a lot of commercial work. I’m the complete photographer.

There’s a kind of telepathy that goes on with the photographer and model.

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

When you’re in a relationship with a photographer, and they start abusing that relationship and being like, ‘I want you to do this, and I want you to do that,’ it makes you go, ‘No.’ I didn’t want to work all the time.

I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That’s the curse of being a photographer.

I’m not a politician or a scholar or political historian. I’m just a photographer who’s trying to capture a spirit. It’s not an intellectual process; it’s an intuitive process.

Truthfully, I don’t really think of myself as a photographer. I don’t have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who’s spent their life devoted to photography.

I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.

I have no regrets about my work. To be a photographer was a gift of the gods. I can’t imagine anything that would have been better.

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

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

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

As a photographer, God’s light in Southern California is something unlike I’ve ever seen on planet Earth. There’s a beauty about it, especially in the afternoon that is so pretty.

If I had sat around and waited until I had an idea to be a successful photographer, I would still be in finance.

As a photographer, there are times when I have to decide if it’s appropriate to invade a moment with my camera.

In the same way that musicians inspire me, artists and photographers like David LaChapelle influence me with their visuals. A photographer like LaChapelle creates an entirely new and unique visual for their work, and that’s what I’d like to do with the Charli XCX world as well.

Being called a dance photographer makes me bristle. You might say that dance is my landscape. The root of my interest is movement or, rather, how movement can be interpreted photographically, and dance provides a perfect opportunity for this.

A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you’re not feeling very sexy.

Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.

Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.

I really had a great time shooting for Dabboo Ratnani. He is such an experienced photographer and works in perfection.

Did you notice what happened when digital photography arrived? Suddenly there were four times as many people on set for a shoot! It used to be a photographer, a couple of photo assistants, stylist and a fashion assistant, hair and make-up and that was about it.

I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas’ Daily Texan.

I used to be a photographer – and now I’m some kind of digital photographic artist.

Well, I liked it – that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn’t think of it in terms of a career. I didn’t really know; I didn’t really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer.

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

I worked with a great photographer called Rafael Pavarotti a while ago and he’s got some amazing playlists on Spotify.

Think both big and small. Loving to bake doesn’t only mean becoming a baker. It could mean starting a blog, becoming a food photographer, or going into organic chemistry.

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a screenplay writer or a photographer. First question people asked me: ‘Who do you know? Any contacts?’

Instagram is great but I’m not an amazing photographer and I don’t wanna post selfies constantly.

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.

My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.

A girl must have an indefinable magic, real character, a strong sense of self. Her role is to respond to the brief of a photographer or communicate the vision of a designer – while making whatever she does look utterly effortless and whatever she wears utterly seamless.

We at Interscope put projects out with anyone we believe has a great idea and is a true talent, whether it’s a musician, photographer, software developer, or technology innovator.

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.

I’d very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it’s just for myself.

Many people misunderstand me – I’m quite happy to be called a photographer. All of a sudden, the art world has caught up with photography, and they are trying to hijack us.

I became a photographer in order to be a war photographer, and a photographer involved in what I thought were critical social issues. From the very beginning this was my goal.

By default, I am a travel photographer. I work on a combination of commissions and personal projects that take me around the world.

Because of reality television and all these celebrities thinking they can be designers, everyone imagines that they can just become a designer, photographer, or model, but that’s not the way things work. People have to go to school, learn their craft, and build a brand – that’s the right, healthy way to do things.

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I’m not a painter.

My family was very unhappy about my becoming a photographer – profoundly and deeply unhappy.

The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don’t have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.