Photographer Quotes

It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian.

If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.

When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer.

The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

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

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

Kate Moss is small and not necessarily model dimensions but she has that special something.

I photograph different people all the time. I like to shoot all kinds of people.

I have a book out called 'The Beauty Equation' and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty.

I got a camera when I was nine years old and it wasn't until I was a model that I realized you could be a photographer for a job.

I always look at people and think how I would cast them.

I always go for simplicity.

Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.

Everyone gets old - there's nothing you can do about it.

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.

Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.

Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.

Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.

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

All my ex-girlfriends or wives are all kind of great friends and I've never understood somebody who can live with somebody for five or six years and then not like them.

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.

I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.

I left school on my 15th birthday.

Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.

Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.