Quotes About Photography

You know, as photographers, we do pictures, and people either like them or they hate them.

Photographers have to make the clothes look fantastic; that's why we get paid.

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.

A lot of photographers like models to be blank canvases - but bland girls don't influence me. I don't like playing with dolls; I like playing with people.

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.

It's not easy for most girls to stand in next-to-nothing and listen to photographers and stylists commenting on how they look.

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.

I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers.

When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone.

Photographers have always been each other's biggest fans.

What amazes me is that you can have 10 different photographers in the same room, and you see 10 different rooms. You realize how much of it is the person's perspective rather than the situation itself.

I was looking at this picture of Brooke Shields at Studio 54 the other day. Everyone in the shot looks amazing because they have these black and white cameras with a flash. I think that's what photographers should go back to.

I am not a photojournalist and certainly not used to the Jason Bourne type stuff that some photographers have to deal with.

These days, photographers have expensive contracts with actresses, but then the actresses have to have their names written in the column because nobody recognizes them. That's kind of strange.

Danny Lyon is one of my favorite photographers.

I love working with photographers.

Some photographers work on the same image for hours and hours and then use the first picture that they took.

There're only a few photographers I've ever felt really comfortable with.

I take my camera to shoots and ask all the photographers and assistants to show me what to do with it.

Every time someone downloads a picture, the photographers get paid about 30% of what we charge.

Rex has photographers around the world - it's a higher touch business: there are a lot of relationships involved. If you throw an event, there are certain photographers you've worked with before and you want there.

I think that something photographers find about me is that I work really hard to make sure I know what they want before I start shooting.

I am one of the last photographers to convert to digital.