Quotes About Photography

Listening to Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna gave me the confidence I needed to get up on stage and be photographed every night on tour.

I know when I go out and wear a pretty dress and get photographed, I'm going to be in the press, which will help with my business.

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.

That's true, because I'm a photographer now.

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given.

I don't like gimmicky pictures; I've always hated them. I like pictures that are very clear and clean, whether you're a great street photographer - somebody like Friedlander or Winogrand or Cartier-Bresson - or whether you're a portraitist, like Irving Penn.

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.

A still photographer is a mechanic. He's not an artist, despite all you read.

Sometimes I'm amazed by how much you can do as a photographer.

When you're a fashion photographer, you must inspire a dream.

I wanted to be Brooke Shields, and my mother was an aspiring photographer, so I was, of course, the only one who would sit still long enough for her to get things in focus, and I loved doing that.

As a journalist and longtime photographer, I love Instagram and the connection it gives me to my friends and family as I journey afar or for me to view their lives from my perch back home.

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.

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.

When I left art college, I was a still photographer for a year.

I really had a great time shooting for Dabboo Ratnani. He is such an experienced photographer and works in perfection.

I never claimed to be a great photographer.

My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.

When you understand how to do that dance, when the photographer says, 'Hold it, do it,' and you know you're getting it right, oh, the fun. It is fun.

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

Well, now I'm an old photographer and I still don't sell.

There's a kind of telepathy that goes on with the photographer and model.

I'll always be an amateur photographer.

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.