Photographer Bio Quotes

I'm the world's most famous photographer, most sought after photographer, most awarded photographer. ~ Peter Lik

People deserve to have their experiences understood in a genuine bio-psycho-social approach. All too often, this is ignored in favor of what is a very reductionist, bio-medical, model ... ~ Peter Kinderman

Only a Photographer can stop the time.
Just by one click. ~ Biju Karakkonam, Nature And Wildlife Photographer

I've never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning - but some phase of photographer I've always been. ~ Dorothea Lange

A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time. ~ Brassai

[Photography] underlines the photographer. That's the Barthesian this has been. Well, this has been for the photographer as well. The photographer is the hidden placeholder in the Barthesian equation. ~ James Welling

I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer. ~ James Nachtwey

Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and maybe the profession will come after. ~ Christopher Anderson

A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe. ~ Nobuyoshi Araki

A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar. ~ Freeman Patterson

Thus, during the winter of 2003 I ventured into a new arena as a professional photographer. ~ Janine Turner

Thus, in short, in sum, in all, it was but a babystep for Chomsky, graced with this understanding of the ineffable richness of our bio-abilities, to become the universalist that he be, to extend his understanding to the political realm ...and to leap, by bio-necessity, into his political work- ~ Evan Dara

Take your camera off automatic. You are the photographer. ~ Steve Coleman

This is how you can tell a real photographer: mostly, a real photographer does not say 'I wish I had my camera on me right now'. Instead a real photographer pulls out her camera and takes the photograph. ~ Neil Gaiman

I'm in between an installation artist, video artist and photographer. And when you work with nude bodies, you're immediately called a pornographer or a fashion photographer. ~ Spencer Tunick

My name is Weegee. I'm the world's greatest photographer ... ~ Weegee

Well, I'm not going to get into that. I think that those kind of distinctions and lists of titles like "street photographer" are so stupid. I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it. ~ Garry Winogrand

A camera exposes more than just an image. It also exposes the photographer. ~ Steve Coleman

When the world asks "what was it like?" Only the photographer can say "See! ~ Mark Denman

I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer. ~ Alfred Eisenstaedt

A photographer doesn't just copy reality, but communicates to others what he or she experiences. ~ Walter Rosenblum

I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject at the time the pictures were made. That's all that any photographer can claim. I do not know any great photographer who would presume otherwise. ~ David Hurn

When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatan - at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph, combines the characters sha, meaning to reflect or copy, and shin, meaning truth, hence the photographer seems to entertain grand delusions of portraying truth. ~ Hiroshi Sugimoto

It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed. ~ Sebastiao Salgado

Photographers are the history makers, because every picture is a moment which gone fore ever and can not be re shoot."
― Biju Karakkonam Nature and Wild life Photographer ~ Biju Karakkonam Nature And Wild Life Photographer

Notebook. No photographer should be without one! ~ Ansel Adams

A natural-born photographer, with hypo in my blood. ~ Weegee

I wanted to be the photographer of happiness. ~ Malick Sidibe

The subject isn't always a help to the photographer, it's like handcuffs. ~ Raymond Depardon

That's rule number one for a photographer, isn't it? Fill your frame? ~ David Cronenberg

As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality. ~ Rineke Dijkstra

The wandering photographer sees the same show that everyone else sees. He, however, stops to watch it. ~ Edouard Boubat

Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer. ~ Andreas Feininger

The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time. ~ Andre Kertesz

The camera cannot, but the photographer can. ~ Ansel Adams

I never thought I would become a photographer. ~ Rene Burri

Learning how to use different formats has made me a better photographer. When I started working in medium format, it made me a better 35 mm photographer. When I started working in 4x5, it made me a better medium-format photographer. ~ Mary Ellen Mark

To be a photographer you must have something to say about the world. ~ Paul Strand

I don't know who said 'pictures don't lie.' It couldn't have been a photographer. ~ Linda Palmer

No matter how sophisticated the camera, the photographer is still the one that makes it. ~ Doug Bartlow

When I first started to take photographs in Czechoslovakia, I met this old gentleman, this old photographer, who told me a few practical things. One of the things he said was, "Josef, a photographer works on the subject, but the subject works on the photographer." ~ Josef Koudelka

A great photographer show off his talent & awards on facebook.
An amateur photographer show off his work and skill on facebook.
A foolgrapher show off his camera and how he holds it, on facebook. ~ Junior Ming

The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates. ~ Susan Sontag

No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras ~ Edward Weston

It's a very weird thing being a photographer. ~ Danny Lyon

I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer. ~ Bill Eppridge

There are lesbian sex parties that happen in the city and how they will often have No Bio-Cock Policies, meaning, No Trans Women. Or, optimistically, Trans Women: Keep Your Pants On. Meanwhile trans guys are welcome to brandish whatever cocks they want. Kind of frustrating, kind of problematic ... The term bio-cock has become shorthand for the fact that trans women aren't sexually welcome in any communities anywhere. ~ Imogen Binnie

I never take photographs myself. I don't feel like a photographer, more like a recycler ~ Christian Boltanski

A creative photographer is one who either captures mystery or reveals things, everything else is useless ~ Raghu Rai

Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept. ~ Ansel Adams

Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography. ~ Martin Parr

I am not used to doing naked shoots but when you trust the photographer and the crew, you know it won't be vulgar. ~ Gisele Bundchen

The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form. ~ Beaumont Newhall

The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little, but insofar as it is the instrument of intrepid, questioning subjectivity, the photographer is all. ~ Susan Sontag

It is necessary to like loneliness to be photographer ~ Raymond Depardon

The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business. ~ Robert Capa

Even the most amazingly talented photographer could not have been able to catch splendid photos without the amazing talent of nature which creates splendid things! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same? ~ Elie Wiesel

For me, the best part is people who watch the movie and tell me it inspired them to collaborate with their friend who's a photographer or filmmaker. ~ Feist

A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself. ~ John Szarkowski

I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her. ~ Berenice Abbott

The photographer's vision convinces us to the degree that the photographer hides his hand. ~ John Szarkowski

The possibility of one particular photographer's pictures lying around the corner is never realized until the photographer is there. It's one of the enigmas of photography. ~ Alex Webb

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated. ~ George Bernard Shaw

A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you're not feeling very sexy. ~ Cindy Margolis

I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises. ~ Joan Fontcuberta

The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism. ~ Cornell Capa

Thirty-six satisfactory exposures on a roll means a photographer is not trying anything new ~ Freeman Patterson

I'm kind of a twisted social documentary photographer. ~ Catherine Opie

In the spirit of Vivian Maier, who worked unaided by any publication or commercial shooting, I set up the Emerging Photographer Fund ~ David Alan Harvey

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

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

You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business. ~ Elliott Erwitt

I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years) ~ Danny Lyon

I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor. ~ Ben Affleck

I want to be the toughest photographer in the world. ~ Don McCullin

If I'd had the nerve, I'd have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn't, I became a photographer. ~ Man Ray

It is a rare photographer who can take a detached, cold-blooded view of his work. ~ Arthur Rothstein

It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have always felt strongly that this was the photographer's true vocation. ~ Brassai

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. ~ Susan Sontag

A likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

Fantasy isn't something I put into the pictures; I don't try and inject them with a sense of play. But it's about being an honest photographer; a photograph is as much of a mirror of the photographer as it is the subject. ~ Tim Walker

The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better. ~ Minor White

Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ... ~ John Szarkowski

The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them. ~ Sid Grossman

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

Loneliness told me, I will not leave you alone. ~ Biju Karakkonam, Nature And Wildlife Photographer

I was to be a photographer and that was that. It did everything for me. I love people. I needed the camera more than ever I would have believed. ~ Lotte Jacobi

A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure. ~ Robert Doisneau

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

I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck. ~ Dorothea Lange

Being a digital photographer I'm in awe of the older generation of photographers who created all those iconic cinematic style images on film, such as Man Ray's portrait of the photographer Lee Miller. ~ Paul Walker

Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.) ~ Alfred Stieglitz

[Postmodern photography] implies the exhaustion of the image universe: it suggests that a photographer can find more than enough images already existing in the world without the bother of making new ones. ~ Andy Grundberg

Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher. ~ John Szarkowski

The photographer can arrange his picture just as the painter does, only sometimes he must go about it in a different way. ~ Laura Gilpin

We don't need to be a pro photographer for making a photo or an experienced author for making quotes, everyone can make photos and quotes. ~ Glad Munaiseche

Not every artistic person should have to be a photographer, but every photographer should be artistic. ~ Pradeepa Pandiyan

If you're not a curious person, you're certainly not going to be a good photographer. ~ Elliott Erwitt

You know, the Chinese don't like to be photographed because they believe that a part of their life is being taken away by the photographer. And in a way, they're right. The photographer is trying to get the prettiest moment of a life in his camera. ~ Bert Stern