Top Photographers Quotes
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.
Ansel Adams
They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure.
Helmut Newton
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is a consummate professional, but he's also an 'amateur' in the pure sense of the word.
John Sexton
I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers.
Lauren Hutton
Matthew Brady 
Ansel Adams 
Lisa Marie Presley 
Gisele Bundchen 
Annie Leibovitz All Photographers Quotes
It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.
Brooke Shields 
49% of people like this quote
Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
48% of people like this quote
I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers.
Anthony Holden
48% of people like this quote
It was like two different photographers, and shot in three different locations and it was really fun to do. There were 12 beautiful girls in it. It was great.
Gisele Bundchen
47% of people like this quote
Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.
Galen Rowell
47% of people like this quote
If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.
Robert Mapplethorpe
47% of people like this quote
Photographers never have much incentive to show the world as it is.
William Leith
47% of people like this quote
We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
Aaron Siskind
46% of people like this quote
Popular Photographers Authors
Mohandas GandhiAnnie LeibovitzRobert MapplethorpeAnthony HoldenKim WestonAnsel AdamsJohn SextonLisa Marie PresleyGalen RowellBrooke ShieldsLauren HuttonBuffy Sainte-MarieCindy MargolisMartin Bashir
Tobey MaguireJack OsbourneGisele BundchenHenri Cartier-BressonJohn DykstraHelmut NewtonTrishelle CannatellaBill BrandtWilliam Albert AllardElliott ErwittMatthew BradyAaron SiskindWilliam Leith
More »