Sofikitis Photographer Quotes

If in doubt, cheese has been always the answer.. ~ Lindsey Kelk

There are so many things I want to do. Like, I want to get an artist, a musician, a photographer, and a bunch of dancers that I know and just travel across Africa and just film it and just see what happens. Do and learn as much as I possibly can. Luckily, I have a lot more time. ~ Channing Tatum

The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast ... [But] the cinema realizes the paradox of moulding itself on the time of the object and of taking the imprint of its duration as well. ~ Andre Bazin

Gesture is not always action. ~ Jay Maisel

Composition is what's similar between being photographer and director. As a photographer, you're sort of doing everything - you're directing the lights and you're framing and you're moving around. The hardest thing to learn as a director is how cameras have to move. You have to have patience, you have to learn how to look through the lens and then you have to learn to combine all of the compartments into one great image. ~ Russell James

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

I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself - for the photograph - without consideration of how it may be used. ~ Eliot Porter

Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture. ~ Lisette Model

After all these years of wandering around as a street photographer and a journalist, I decided that this world is such a curious, screwed up place so full of contradictions ... that I couldn't look at it any more in the raw form without trying to find some way of balancing it in a more philosophical context - less in a reportorial manner and more in an artistic one. ~ Burk Uzzle

In my stolen photographs
for the photographer must be a thief, he must steal instants of other people's time to make his own tiny eternities
it was this intimacy I sought, hte closeness of the living and the dead. ~ Salman Rushdie

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

I always wanted to be a photographer. While I was at school, I got a lab-monkey holiday job in the darkrooms at the 'Independent.' What they taught me there was: you need to get the whole story in one frame. ~ Ben Schott

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

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

For me, Every day is Photography Day ~ Biju Karakkonam, Nature And Wildlife Photographer

The first things I did was I was a writer, painter, and photographer, and we grew up very poor, so even though I could get into any college I wanted, there was no way to pay for it. ~ Lori Petty

When you're modeling you're actually acting for the camera and the photographer. It's more fun, too because there are no lines to memorize. ~ Cindy Margolis

There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning. ~ Pablo Picasso

The most valuable things in a life are a man's memories. And they are priceless. ~ Andre Kertesz

Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement ~ Albert Renger-Patzsch

Find the one thing you're good at and FOCUS on it. ~ Joyce Tenneson

In music I still prefer the minor key, and in printing I like the light coming from the dark. I like pictures that surmount the darkness, and many of my photographs are that way. It is the way I see photographically. For practical reasons, I think it looks better in print too. ~ W. Eugene Smith

Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul. ~ Marius Vieth

Eventually I discovered for myself the utterly simple prescription for creativity; be intensely yourself. Don't try to be outstanding; don't try to be a success;don't try to do pictures for others to look at- just please yourself. ~ Ralph Steiner

The photographer was installed in the back of an inconspicurous dry-goods store in the poorer neighbourhood of Warsaw. He seemed to know all about me. His job was to prepare a picture of me which resembled me sufficiently to be claimed as mine, but in which the features were so vague that I could disown it if the need should arise.
He was a bold, spry little man who hardly replied to my few remarks. His deliberate taciturnity was not lost on me and I remained quiet while he concentrated on the task of turning out what proved to be a miniature masterpiece of photographic ambiguity. When it was finished he handed it to me with a pleased smile. I glanced at it and marveled aloud at his skill.
'It's incredible,' I said. 'It makes me feel as though I had met myself before but can't quite remember where. ~ Jan Karski

Art is images you carry. You cannot carry nature with you, but you carry images of nature. When you go out to make a picture you find you are moved by something which is in agreement with an image you already held within yourself. ~ Frederick Sommer

I started being a photographer because I liked fashion. I liked the idea of dressing up and changing my look. I got earrings, dyed my hair. I would dress like a fashion photo. ~ Mario Testino

When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously. ~ Minor White

I think that the photographer must completely control his picture and bring to it all his personality, and in this area most photographs never transcend being just snapshots. When a great photographer does infuse the snapshot with his personality and vision, it can be transformed into something truly moving and beautiful. ~ Duane Michals

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance. ~ Sally Mann

You become technically proficient whether you want to or not, the more you take pictures. ~ William Eggleston

Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras. ~ Ansel Adams

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

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself. ~ Diane Arbus

You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy. ~ Elliott Erwitt

Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer. ~ Berenice Abbott

The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes. ~ Jacques-Henri Lartigue

I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing. ~ Alfred Stieglitz

You are responsible for every part of your image, even the parts you're not interested in. ~ Jay Maisel

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

In the end, the photographer shot a close-up of Troy holding a photo of himself waiting in a much more interesting line fifteen years ago.
It was a humiliating setback for them as individuals and for the line as a whole. ~ Rainbow Rowell

When you're with people that are aware of the fact that you're a photographer, they'll say, "Oh, look at that! That's something to take a picture of!" That's almost a sure sign that you shouldn't do it. ~ Ari Marcopoulos

Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems. ~ Jessa Crispin

I always found it rather pathetic that as a photographer I would be dependent to such a large extent on sheer luck ... So the moment I was offered [digital] tools to bend the shape of the image into my choices, and not those of lady luck, I was hooked. ~ Pedro Meyer

The artist who thinks negatively about his or her work invites others to think about it negatively as well. ~ Brooke Shaden

Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest. ~ Lisette Model

An author is similar to an actor. They play many characters in their lives - photographer, nurse, dancer, doctor, writer, etc. As an author, you have to learn your craft, know each and every element to become that character you're writing about to be able to live and breathe what they do. ~ Mischa Temaul

Every sunset gives me a hope to live.
It reminds me,
You have capture more with your heart.
It reminds me
you are not alone,
surrounded by a beautiful world,
always there for you. ~ Biju Karakkonam, Nature And Wildlife Photographer