Quotes on Photographer

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.

If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

A picture is a poem without words

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

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.

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

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.

Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.