Photographer Quotes - Page 18

• It's just seeing - at least the photography I care about. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Anyone can learn how to develop. It's how you organize what you see into a picture.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Care, Academic

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• I don't think you can create luck. You're either lucky or you're not. I don't know if it's really luck or if it's just curiosity. I think the main ingredient, or a main ingredient for photography is curiosity. If you're curious enough and if you get up in the morning and go out and take pictures, you're likely to be more lucky than if you just stay at home.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Morning, Home

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• The thing is that when you don't carry a camera, that's when you see pictures in particular, or at least that's when you think you see pictures in particular. When you do carry it, if you do see one on the occasion that you do, you can take it.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Thinking, Cameras

  "Off the Shelf: Elliott Erwitt’s New York" by Rollo Romig, www.newyorker.com. September 14, 2010.

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• Something catches your eye, or your interest. You attack it in some way or observe it in some way, and try to put it in some kind of form and take a picture. It's as simple as that.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Eye, Simple

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• I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Real, Style

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• Working myself into a position of total versatility, so that I can do anything I want to do at the time I want to do it. Whether I do it or not is another question.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Want, Position

  Sean Callahan, Elliott Erwitt, Alskog, inc (1974). “The private experience: Elliott Erwitt”

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• You don't study photography, you just do it.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Study, Just Do It

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• I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.

  Ree Drummond

  Tvs, Translate

  "Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman, Talks About Her New Show on the Food Network" by Brenna Cammeron, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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• I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm just a photographer, not a movie star.

  Ryan McGinley

  Stars, Movie Star

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• I can work with shyness, but for the most part I want people to feel comfortable with me. It's really more about the photographer feeing comfortable right when they walk in that makes the subject feel comfortable.

  Ryan McGinley

  People, Want, Shyness

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• People, photographers, people in the press can sometimes be inappropriate.

  Tobey Maguire

  People, Sometimes, Inappropriate

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• I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict.

  Giles Duley

  War, Conflict, Consequence

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• My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.

  Dylan Lauren

  Mom, Artist, People

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• I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.

  Aaron Siskind

  Photography, Men, Essentials

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• Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

  Aaron Siskind

  Successful, World, Resolve

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• Like most photographers, I try to capture a moment in my work.

  Julian Lennon

  Trying, Moments, Capture

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

  Gaspard Ulliel

  Teens

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• Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a truth.

  Tim Walker

  Mean, Portraits, Needs

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• Fantasy isn't something I put into the pictures; I don't try and inject them with a sense of play. But it's about being an honest photographer; a photograph is as much of a mirror of the photographer as it is the subject.

  Tim Walker

  Mirrors, Play, Trying

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• I was the Playmate editor for Playboy for two years. I produced two years' worth of centerfolds. I did everything on that, from picking the girls to designing the sets to picking the wardrobe, coming up with themes, assigning the photographer, down to editing the photos and approving the retouching.

  Holly Madison

  Girl, Editing, Years

  "Oregon's own reality star Holly Madison talks about 'Dancing'". Interview with Jake Ten Pas, www.oregonlive.com. March 20, 2009.

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• As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on the right. Watch them grow large as they approach, group and regroup as you shift your position. Relationships gradually emerge and sometimes assert themselves with finality. And that's your picture.

  Aaron Siskind

  Moving, Eye, Relax

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• I have asked students at the beginning of their careers, what things of that sort might haunt them – what things they must photograph, things they have to try to shoot even before they master the intricacies of making dye transfer prints.

  Robert Adams

  Careers, Trying, Might

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

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• Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?

  Robert Adams

  Art, Trying, Doe

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

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• Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you have seen something beyond price; then you are to turn and assign to your record of it a cash value. If the selling is not necessarily a contradiction of the truth in the picture, it is so close to being a contradiction—and the truth is always in shades of gray-that you are worn down by the threat.

  Robert Adams

  Artist, Trying, Records

  Robert Adams (1994). “Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews”

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