Photograph Quotes:

Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.

topic: Looks, Photograph, Made

There are no photographs while I'm reloading .

topic: Photography, Battle, Photograph

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed,

topic: Photography, Photograph, Reloading

I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.

topic: Looks, Photograph, Street Photography

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)

topic: Beautiful, Photograph

- Gerhard Richter

topic: Style, Painting, Photograph

If you don't have anything to say, your photographs aren't going to say much.

- Gordon Parks

topic: Photograph

I used to take photographs just to remember people.

- Gus Van Sant

topic: People, Remember, Photograph

The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but ones that are different because the individual is different and the individual expresses himself.

- Harry Callahan

topic: Being Different, Sake, Photograph

I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am.

- Helena Christensen

topic: Photograph

I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

topic: Eternity, Photograph, Instant

Your fitsy 10,000 photographs are your worst.

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

topic: Inspirational, Photograph, Worst

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

- Imogen Cunningham

topic: America, Kind, Photograph

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.

- Jack Johnson

topic: Dream, Real, Photograph

When I photograph, I try to use my instincts as much as possible. It is when pictures are unconsidered and irrational that they come to life; that they evolve from showing to being.

- Jacob Aue Sobol

topic: Trying, Use, Photograph

It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!

- Jacques-Henri Lartigue

topic: Fun, Photograph

I love doing commercials! Usually, they have enough money that they can take time and photograph it well.

- James Earl Jones

topic: Enough, Photograph, Wells

If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.

- James Nachtwey

topic: War, Honest, Photograph

I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own.

- Jamie Bell

source: "This time it's serious" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2007.

topic: Photograph, Feels

Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem.

- Jeanette Winterson

topic: Photograph, Lost

Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs.

- Jeremy Hardy

source: "Jeremy Hardy: Caustic comic". news.bbc.co.uk. April 5, 2002.

topic: Photograph, Britain, Northern Ireland

I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.

- Jerry Uelsmann

source: Jerry Uelsmann, James Enyeart (1980). “Jerry N. Uelsmann: Photographs from 1975-1979”

topic: Thinking, Photograph, Obvious

In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.

- Jerzy Kosinski

topic: Literature, Moments, Photograph, Posing

I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

topic: Two, People, Photograph

The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.

source: Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

topic: Taken, People, Photograph

There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

topic: People, Photograph, Transactions

But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.

source: Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

topic: Taken, Photograph, Misinterpretation

Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.

source: Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

topic: Photograph, Harm

I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time.

topic: Thinking, Body, Photograph, Parts Of The Body

This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.

topic: Long, Photograph, Wells

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

topic: Perfect, Heartbeat, Photograph

Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

- Joel Sternfeld

source: "False witness" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2004.

topic: Photograph, Cartier, Burned, Henri Cartier Bresson

The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

- John Ford

topic: Eye, People, Photograph

The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family is around.

- John Hodgman

topic: People, My Family, Photograph

A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking.

- John Paul Caponigro

topic: Looks, Photographer, Photograph

Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.

- John Paul Caponigro

topic: Degrees, Photographer, Photograph

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

- John Szarkowski

source: E. J. Bellocq, Lee Friedlander, John Szarkowski (1970). “E.J. Bellocq: Storyville portraits, photographs from the New Orleans red-light district, circa 1912”

topic: Photographer, Photograph, Wells

Fiction is an expressionist painting rather than a photograph.

- Josip Novakovich

topic: Fiction, Painting, Photograph

How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!

- Jules Renard

topic: Suicidal, People, Photograph

The cartoon absolutely captures something that acres and acres of copy can't. And even photographs can't.

- Julia Gillard

topic: Cartoon, Acres, Photograph

There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.

- Julie Harris

topic: Museums, Wonderful, Photograph

If they want a photograph, then just take it.

- Keith Emerson

source: "Harris Online", www.harrisonline.com. October 4, 1997.

topic: Want, Photograph

Memories have no life. They're just pale reminders of a time that's gone-like faded photographs.

- Kevin Brooks

topic: Memories, Gone, Photograph

I walk, I look, I see, I stop, I photograph.

- Leon Levinstein

topic: Looks, Photograph, Walks

A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see

- Leon Levinstein

topic: Eye, Littles, Photograph

Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know.

- Lisette Model

topic: Photography, Cameras, Photograph, Detection

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.

- Man Ray

source: "Prophet of the Avant-Garde". www.pbs.org. September 17, 2005.

topic: Vision, Photograph

I paint when I cannot photograph.

- Man Ray

topic: Photograph, Paint

I photograph what I do not wish to paint, and I paint what I do not wish to photograph

- Man Ray

topic: Wish, Photograph, Paint

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

- Marcel Proust

topic: Memories, Window, Photograph, Exhibits

The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Photography, Photograph

My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.

- Mario Testino

topic: Eye, Want, Photograph

I am what I photograph.

- Martin Parr

topic: Ego, Photograph

I try to photograph my own and society's hypocrisy.

- Martin Parr

topic: Hypocrisy, Trying, Photograph

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

- Martin Parr

topic: Hard Work, Passionate, Photograph

I always wanted to photograph the universal subjects.

- Mary Ellen Mark

topic: Photograph, Wanted, Subjects

Im just interested in what makes a photograph.

- Mary Ellen Mark

topic: Photograph

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

- Matt Damon

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

topic: Bored, Photograph, Wanted, Aisle

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.

- Matt Hardy

topic: Inspirational, Snapshots, Photograph, Inspirational Photography, Inspiring Photography

There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.

- Matthew Modine

topic: Discipline, Portraits, Photograph, Shutters

Life is a photograph too, so thank you,for not removing yourself from the picture just yet.

- Meggie Royer

topic: Life Is, Photograph

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

All photographs are self-portraits.

topic: Photography, Firsts, Photograph

Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.

topic: Self, Portraits, Photograph, Self Portrait

One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

topic: Photography, Cameras, Photograph

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

topic: Doe, Photograph

You can get anything from Mozilla Firefox-based themes to nature themes to your own photographs.

topic: Photograph, Should

- Mitchell Baker

topic: Mozilla, Photograph, Theme

The best photographs are made by the best people.

- Morley Baer

topic: Photography, People, Photograph

My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.

- Nan Goldin

topic: Memories, Important, Photograph

We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women

- Naomi Wolf

source: Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.105, Random House

topic: Fashion, Imitation, Photograph

Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.

- Nick Cave

topic: People, Cameras, Photograph

If I feel confident wearing something, I think it translates in photographs. It changes my demeanor and posture.

- Nina Dobrev

topic: Thinking, Photograph, Posture, Demeanor

I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no ordinary fellow, obviously...

- Norman Mailer

topic: Book, Ordinary, Photograph

The only thing that gets in the way of a really good photograph, is the camera

- Norman Parkinson

topic: Way, Cameras, Photograph

What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.

- Peg Bracken

topic: Taken, Photograph, Natural, Picture Taken

My favorite photograph, is the one I will take tomorrow.

- Pete Souza

topic: Tomorrow, My Favorite, Photograph

In Majorca, I can be myself. I go to the supermarket and the cinema, and I am just Rafa. Everyone knows me, and it is no big deal. I can go all day - no photographs.

- Rafael Nadal

topic: Cinema, Photograph, Bigs

The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.

- Richard Avedon

topic: Reality, People, Photograph

I hate being the subject of photographs.

- Richard Griffiths

source: "Richard Griffiths: 'I've always hated the way I look'". Interview with Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2005.

topic: Hate, I Hate, Photograph

Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is always about time.

- Richard Misrach

topic: Photography, May, Photograph

Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.

- Robert Adams

topic: Photography, Silence, Photograph

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

- Robert Doisneau

topic: Photography, Photograph, Leica, Good Photography, Black And White Photography

I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be,

- Robert Doisneau

topic: Photograph

There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

- Robert Heinecken

topic: Photography, Differences, Photograph, Inspiring Photography, Capturing A Moment Photography

The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.

- Robert Mapplethorpe

topic: Art, Artist, Photograph

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

- Robert Smith

topic: Way, Adults, Photograph, Old Photographs, Sorting

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

- Ruth Bernhard

topic: Photography, Helping, Photograph

I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing to do with it.

- Ruth Bernhard

topic: Photography, Photograph, Intellect

The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best,

- Sally Mann

topic: Photograph

Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art.

- Sally Mann

topic: Art, Love You, Photograph

In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.

- Sam Abell

topic: Mistake, Spirit, Photograph

There are parts of me I only recognize from photographs.

- Sarah Kay

topic: Photograph

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person,

- Saul Leiter

source: "In No Great Hurry: Film Review" by John DeFore, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 6, 2014.

topic: Raindrops, Window, Photograph

I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture.Â I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.

- Saul Leiter

source: Saul Leiter, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson (2008). “Saul Leiter”, Steidl / Edition7L

topic: Profound, Photograph, Explanation, Avoided

You photograph with all your ideology.

- Sebastiao Salgado

topic: Photograph, Ideology

...my way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things...

- Sebastiao Salgado

topic: Photography, Way, Photograph

I love sharing photographs and websites, I'm for all of these things. I'm for Facebook. But to say that this is sociability? We begin to define things in terms of what technology enables and technology allows.

- Sherry Turkle

topic: Technology, Photograph, Term, Sociability

I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.

- Shirley Knight

topic: Annie, Photograph, Individual

[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.

- Stanley Kubrick

topic: Reality, Trying, Photograph

I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories.

- Stephen Chbosky

topic: Memories, Thinking, Photograph

Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.

- Stephen King

topic: Mean, Writing, Photograph

The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.

- Stephen Shore

topic: Photograph, Draws

A photograph has edges the world does not.

- Stephen Shore

source: Stephen Shore (2007). “The nature of photographs”, Phaidon Inc Ltd

topic: World, Doe, Photograph

If you want to be a photographer, you have to photograph

- Steve McCurry

topic: Want, Photographer, Photograph

Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear.

- Susan Orlean

source: "Soulful" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 4, 2011.

topic: Trying, Impossible, Photograph

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

source: Susan Sontag (1978). “On photography”, Delta

topic: Moments, Photograph, Mortality, Memento Mori, Mutability

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

topic: Art, Levels, Photograph

To photograph is to confer importance.

topic: Life Is, Photograph