Andy Warhol
Artist, Filmmaker
"Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life."
Photographer quotes
Photographer
650 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Andy Warhol
Artist, Filmmaker
"It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are."
Ansel Adams
Photographer
"A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words."
John Sexton
Photographer
"For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom."
Lewis Hine
Photographer
"I wanted to show the thing that had to be corrected: I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated."
Explore further
Topics related to Photographer
Browse quotes that often appear alongside photographer — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Photographer quotes (page 1 of 33)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs."
Read quote
46 likes
"If it doesn’t have ambiguity, don’t bother to take it. I love that, that aspect of photography - the mendacity of photography. It’s got to have some kind of peculiarity in it, or it’s not interesting to me."
Read quote
43 likes
"Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference."
Read quote
43 likes
"I like to be the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. But usually being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space is worth it, because something funny always happens."
Read quote
37 likes
"A good photograph is knowing where to stand."
Read quote
37 likes
"If a picture is worth a thousand words, photographers are worth a million."
Read quote
25 likes
"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."
Read quote
23 likes
"A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into."
Read quote
22 likes
"Photographers are always imposing"
Read quote
22 likes
"We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium."
Read quote
21 likes
"Good photography is unpretentious."
Read quote
21 likes
"If I could be said to have any kind of aesthetic, it's sort of a magpie aesthetic - I just go and pick up whatever is around. If you think about it, the children were there, so I took pictures of my children. It's not that I'm interested in children that much or photographing them - it's just that they were there."
Read quote
21 likes
"I work rather blindly. I have a theory that seems to work with me that some of the best things you ever do sort of come through you. You don't know where you get the impetus and response to what's before your eyes."
Read quote
19 likes
"Notebook. No photographer should be without one!"
Read quote
17 likes
"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter."
Read quote
17 likes
"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."
Read quote
17 likes
"Basically I'm always looking for things. Any good photographer should always be looking for something, you know."
Read quote
16 likes
"Every image is in some way a “portrait,” not in the way that it would reproduce the traits of a person, but in that it pulls and draws (this is the semantic and etymological sense of the word), in that it extracts something, an intimacy, a force."
Read quote
16 likes
"Success is when the checks don’t bounce."
Read quote
15 likes
"I like boring things."
Read quote
14 likes