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Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography.

— Patti Smith

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I don't see myself as a photographer. I still see the photographs and collages as a resource for the painting.

— Mickalene Thomas

What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion. Sometimes you feel blessed with curiosity, sometimes you feel cursed with it.

— Eve Arnold

I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.

— Sally Schneider

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

— Annie Parisse

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

— David Bailey

I am a very keen photographer. I have enjoyed taking pictures since I was a kid with my family, but I became more serious about it at university.

— Ren Ng

I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.

— Irving Penn

I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

— Gaspard Ulliel

✗Opposing Perspectives

I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'

— David LaChapelle

Many people misunderstand me - I'm quite happy to be called a photographer. All of a sudden, the art world has caught up with photography, and they are trying to hijack us.

— Don McCullin