Photographer Quotes

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.

When I die I want to go to Vogue.

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.

People want security in this insecure world.

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.

You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

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.

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.

I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.

All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse.

What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!