Peter Lindbergh Quotes

I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.

When I was younger I used to be really into photography, and I still am, I just don't really get to do it besides taking my own artists photos and stuff like that.

I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15.

I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.

I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.

Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.

My name is Weegee. I'm the world's greatest photographer.

There's no great mystique to photography. A lot of photographers like to put their hands up to their forehead and tell you how they've suffered and so forth. Well, I just rent a car and drive to the place and take the pictures.

Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography.

I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.

What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.

You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I'm the one to do it.

My only interest in photographing is photography.

There is something about this process, and about the whole 8 x 10 [camera] business, that takes it out of the arena of the snapshot, even though, of course, I'm always desperate for that feeling. I wanted those family pictures to look effortless. I wanted them to look like snapshots. And some of them did.

I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.

Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.

If the guy behind the camera is not good, the pictures are bad. It's still you, and it's the same lines and everything, but it doesn't work.

I didn't see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest photographers and not artists?

I used to always love taking photos, but I would always give a camera away to someone else. Now I don't give the camera away anymore. It also takes a long time to develop a visual style, and I think that the things that I was imitating were people I love, like Judy Linn or Gerald Turner, and then it slowly started to become more myself.

I don't care how you photograph - use the kitchen mop if you must, but if the product is not true to the laws of photography... you have produced something that is dead. (1923)

I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.

I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.

I'm still learning and I'm still growing as a photographer.

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