Dorothea Lange Quotes

The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.

Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do.

A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a thing for you if you don't have anything in your head or in your heart.

Work harder, get closer and be passionate about what you photograph.

Photography is something you learn to love very quickly. I know that many, many things are going to ask me to have their pictures taken and I will take them all.

What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals.

The most important thing is to be passionate and ready to accept the pains that sometimes go along with the business.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

Acting and the industry of making movies is beautiful, but it's so exhausting and such hard work; if you don't absolutely 100% want to do something, it defeats the purpose.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.

When I'm working on a movie, I will make any sacrifice to finish it.

I told them if were going to do it were going to do it right, I'm not leaving 'til it's done. My wife, child and I slept in the studio. We cut these raw.

He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography.

Younger songwriters will ask me, 'What did you do?' And it's like, 'Well, I worked a day job, and I didn't stake anything. I didn't quit my day job. I didn't have any hopes at all. I just did the thing that I believed in, and I waited a long time.'

It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.

With anything you do and you dedicate yourself to and you dedicate thousands and thousands of hours, eventually you're gonna get a little bit better at it unless there's some innate impairment preventing that.

I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.

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

I have my struggles. But I'm doing whatever it takes to be an artist, to be the best technical jumper I can be, the best spinner I can be. Nothing is easy about that. But I'm doing whatever I can to be the best.