Photography Business Quotes

I was a dog groomer. I delivered radiators; I was a photography producer. I typed classified ads for many years. It was my longest term job - years of typing classified ads while I was in bands.

A fashion photographer is nothing without clothes and hair and makeup. And when I speak to other photographers, a lot of them can't reference a picture by the designer. Me, I say, 'The Balenciaga.' And I go to the shows. I feel like it's my business.

It's very simple... this banging around with a camera and typewriter as a business is just one helluva lot of fun.

We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography as a way of life.

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.

To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.

I happen to take photographs, and they happen to be used for a lot of things, but they're not really made to order. They're paid for, but they're not made for order. I've never really done real commercial work.

I myself was a wedding photographer when I was, like, 16.

My son does a little photography, but he's not involved the way I was.

Why did I take fashion photographs? I thought it was fun. And there was a lot of money.

Over the years I always did some water colors, and I did a series of pictures of drawings. I always did it during a period of time that was slow in the photo business, but in essence it was always frustrating because I'd get started, and then it would be time to get back to work and I wouldn't get anywhere with the painting.

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

I love working with photographers.

I never set out to be a photographer.

You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what you're hired for.

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

When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.

I like to choose the people I take photographs of, but when you make your living off it, you've got to take everybody.

I had no idea how I wanted to get into photography, but I just knew I wanted to do it.

I’m no part time dilettante photographer, unlike the bartenders, shoe salesmen, floorwalkers plumbers, barbers, grocery clerks and chiropractors whose great hobby is their camera. All their friends rave about what wonderful pictures they take. If they’re so good, why don’t they take pictures full—time, for a living, and make floor walking, chiropractics, etc., their hobby? But everyone wants to play it safe. They’re afraid to give up their pay checks and their security they might miss a meal.

I think a lot of times photo sessions is just a test, maybe, for models. Sometimes it's for money. I'm going to shoot a girl in a couple weeks in Italy who has been writing me for a couple years. She sends photos all the time and it's kind of like a game. A lot of times people write and then they just want to see if I'm interested. If I say I am, I never hear from them again.

There are those photographers who have made a whole career doing commercial work but have never had a museum show, and then there are others who've only had museum shows but couldn't survive for five seconds in the real world of photography. But I've done absolutely everything.

Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.

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