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Quotes About Passion

People think photo shoots are easy but they're actually very, very hard, you're not only holding your body position but you're thinking about not looking cold in freezing water, your body looking good, my face and everything - it's tough but I love it.
~ Maura Higgins
After leaving college I got a job as a photo editor. Then, looking through my mum's photo archive inspired me to take it seriously.
~ Mary McCartney
In the beginning, the clients would say, 'This is too much,' but over time, the ones I liked kept working with me. They'd say, 'It's not too much. Coco can still be Coco. She still gives 100 percent when she's on a photo shoot.'
~ Coco Rocha
If I didn't have to earn a living somehow, I would never have taken a fashion photograph in my life.
~ William Klein
I've fallen in love with the classical world of imagery, and what I'd like to do now over the last bit of my life is to photograph some nudes.
~ Don McCullin
It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!
~ Jacques-Henri Lartigue
I've hardly taken a photograph since 1967.
~ Astrid Kirchherr
My dad photographed a lot of beautiful dancers. My mom was a dancer.
~ Ansel Elgort
That's true, because I'm a photographer now.
~ Leonard Nimoy
I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
~ Berenice Abbott
I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.
~ Richard Avedon
Think both big and small. Loving to bake doesn't only mean becoming a baker. It could mean starting a blog, becoming a food photographer, or going into organic chemistry.
~ Taylor Jenkins Reid
If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved to have done something that actually helped people and changed their lives.
~ Mary Ellen Mark
For a short time I was an assistant to a professional photographer, and I felt that my soul was not there. That is the stage when I decided to stay in London and do a graduate degree.
~ Ori Gersht
Well, now I'm an old photographer and I still don't sell.
~ Kim Weston
I'll always be an amateur photographer.
~ Elliott Erwitt
What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion. Sometimes you feel blessed with curiosity, sometimes you feel cursed with it.
~ Eve Arnold
I am an artist first and a photographer second.
~ Andres Serrano
I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
~ Imogen Cunningham
I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself.
~ Graeme Le Saux
I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is.
~ Mary Ellen Mark
I'm a big fan of 'National Geographic', the magazine and the channel. Anything to do with the natural world. For years, when I was younger, I was convinced I would be a nature photographer, but that didn't pan out.
~ Tom Weston-Jones
I never set out to be a photographer.
~ David Bailey
I'm just a photographer, not a movie star.
~ Ryan McGinley