Quotes about Photograph

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness. Votes: 4

Photograph each day so we can live forever Votes: 3

A good photograph is knowing where to stand. Votes: 3

Photographs don’t lie, but liars may photograph Votes: 3

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into. Votes: 3

Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel. Votes: 3

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. Votes: 3

Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality. Votes: 3

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. Votes: 3

You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations. Votes: 3

My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see. Votes: 3

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good Votes: 3

Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it. Votes: 3

When I photograph, I am always relating things to one another. Photography shows the connection between things, how they relate. Votes: 3

What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially. Votes: 3

Photography Cannot Record Abstract Ideas (Title of a 16x20 inch photograph depicting an index card on which that phrase is handwritten.) Votes: 3

Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know. Votes: 3

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard. Votes: 3

Photography seems to fix, but this is an illusion created by our short lives. A photograph is merely a note held for 200 years. Votes: 3

Photographs and reality are just night and day. In reality, the information is all there. A photograph is just kind of a hint. Votes: 3

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph. Votes: 3

Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits. Votes: 3

Photography teaches us to see, and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photograph, I make a wish. I was always looking for beauty. Votes: 3

The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people, and how they exist, and how they fight for space and time and pleasure. Votes: 3

You don't take a photograph, you make it. Votes: 2

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. Votes: 2

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. Votes: 2

When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it. Votes: 2

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. Votes: 2

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them. Votes: 2

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow. Votes: 2

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time. Votes: 2

To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis Votes: 2

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. Votes: 2

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs. Votes: 2

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. Votes: 2

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. Votes: 2

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved. Votes: 2

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis. Votes: 2

I photograph continuously, often without a good idea or strong feelings. During this time the photos are nearly all poor, but I believe they develop my seeing and help later on in other photos. I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people. Votes: 2

The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough. Votes: 1

There are plenty of beautiful girls who don't photograph well. Votes: 1

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. Votes: 1

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. Votes: 1

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you. Votes: 1

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. Votes: 1

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. Votes: 1

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk. Votes: 1

Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world. Votes: 1

You'll reach into your wallet to brandish a photograph of a new puppy, and a friend will say, 'Oh, no - not pictures.' Votes: 1

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look. Votes: 1

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium. Votes: 1

There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent. Votes: 1

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks. Votes: 1

I don't know what my formula is. I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds. I like a little bit of the fairy tale. Let others photograph the ugliness of the world. I don't want to distress people. Votes: 1

You open a section of 'The New York Times,' and there's a review or a story on a choreographer or a dancer, and there's an informative, clear image of a dancer. This is, in my view, not an interesting photograph. Votes: 1

No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience. Votes: 1

After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained. Votes: 1

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without. Votes: 1

There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect, but in a way I think it's better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you don't know very well. Votes: 1

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you can't just use the same colours in every painting. It's just not an option. You can't take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences. Votes: 1

My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The original was destroyed during the Blitz in 1940, and I commissioned an artist I know, Brigid Marlin, to make a copy from a photograph. I never stop looking at this painting and its mysterious and beautiful women. Votes: 1

You can't photograph everything. Votes: 0

I never photograph reality. Votes: 0

The photograph annihilates the person. Votes: 0

I like to photograph democratically. Votes: 0

I am what I photograph. Votes: 0

The camera can photograph thought. Votes: 0

Only photograph what you love. Votes: 0

I try to photograph thoughts. Votes: 0

I paint when I cannot photograph. Votes: 0

A photograph can look any way. Votes: 0

You photograph with all your ideology. Votes: 0

To photograph is to confer importance. Votes: 0

I hate having my photograph taken. Votes: 0

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness. Votes: 0

Wherever there is light, one can photograph. Votes: 0

I photograph [people] as if photographing flowers. Votes: 0

I photograph Nature, which includes human beings. Votes: 0

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well. Votes: 0

To photograph reality is to photograph nothing. Votes: 0

Every photograph is a certificate of presence. Votes: 0

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph. Votes: 0

I have to photograph where I am. Votes: 0

A photograph is a souvenir of life! Votes: 0

A photograph has edges the world does not. Votes: 0

You can't photograph if you're not in love. Votes: 0

Any photographed human being is always a photograph. Votes: 0

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph. Votes: 0

I prefer a taken to a made photograph. Votes: 0

You see in the photograph what you are. Votes: 0

I always wanted to photograph the universal subjects. Votes: 0

Today everything exists to end in a photograph. Votes: 0

Life is a movie; death is a photograph. Votes: 0

A photograph is a biography of a moment. Votes: 0

Im just interested in what makes a photograph. Votes: 0

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph. Votes: 0

Why do photographers photograph? To make unreality visible. Votes: 0

There's no such thing as a bad photograph. Votes: 0

Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another. Votes: 0

Fiction is an expressionist painting rather than a photograph. Votes: 0

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions. Votes: 0

Richard Prince's most famous photograph was made by me. Votes: 0

Every photograph is a battle of form versus content. Votes: 0

You don't make a photograph just with a camera Votes: 0

There is no photograph more inherently photographic than another. Votes: 0

I try to photograph my own and society's hypocrisy. Votes: 0

Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it? Votes: 0

There is no special way a photograph should look. Votes: 0

A good photograph is one that can't be repeated. Votes: 0

Every photograph is a fake from start to finish, Votes: 0

Taking the photograph is the easiest part for me Votes: 0

If they want a photograph, then just take it. Votes: 0

I can photograph someone if I can touch them. Votes: 0

The camera itself, the photograph itself, calls up death. Votes: 0

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque. Votes: 0

I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different. Votes: 0

The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes. Votes: 0

A photograph is the best split-second decision one can make! Votes: 0

I love to photograph the gorgeous landscapes when I travel. Votes: 0

Everyone looks the same to me in a photograph: stupid. Votes: 0

To make a photograph is already the first artificial act. Votes: 0

My favorite photograph, is the one I will take tomorrow. Votes: 0

I walk, I look, I see, I stop, I photograph. Votes: 0

The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph. Votes: 0

I fight to take a good photograph every single time. Votes: 0

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces. Votes: 0

...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude. Votes: 0

A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture. Votes: 0

Making a definitive declaration of intent or meaning kills the photograph. Votes: 0

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions. Votes: 0

Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph. Votes: 0

There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things. Votes: 0

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed, Votes: 0

Any good photograph is a successful synthesis of technique and art. Votes: 0

A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept. Votes: 0

I'll photograph weddings, friends - I'm not too good for anything. Votes: 0

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions." Votes: 0

Work harder, get closer and be passionate about what you photograph. Votes: 0

If you want to be a photographer, you have to photograph Votes: 0

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels. Votes: 0

I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same. Votes: 0

I photograph like a documentarian, but I print like a painter Votes: 0

A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time. Votes: 0

Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph Votes: 0

I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs. Votes: 0

There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer Votes: 0

When you photograph a lot of women, you get to know things. Votes: 0

The photograph is always more interesting than what the photograph is of. Votes: 0

When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things. Votes: 0

I have a photograph of my grandfather driving a donkey cart barefoot. Votes: 0

I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant. Votes: 0

A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once. Votes: 0

When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants. Votes: 0

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see. Votes: 0

A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy. Votes: 0

A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent. Votes: 0

If you get one photograph that's good from a trip, that's plenty. Votes: 0

Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is always about time. Votes: 0

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph. Votes: 0

In the blur of the photograph, time leaves its gleaming, snail-like track. Votes: 0

A photograph is a mirror; mostly it reflects the prejudices of the viewer. Votes: 0

The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic. Votes: 0

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades. Votes: 0

A photograph can look anyway. It just depends basically on what you photograph. Votes: 0

There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph. Votes: 0

There is a great difference between shooting a photograph and making a photograph. Votes: 0

I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are. Votes: 0

A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking. Votes: 0

In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all. Votes: 0

A good nude photograph can be erotic, but certainly not sentimental or pornographic. Votes: 0

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed Votes: 0

A very big part of the life of a photograph is the afterlife. Votes: 0

Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything. Votes: 0

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies Votes: 0

Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art. Votes: 0

If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless. Votes: 0

I often try to photograph things about a person that are not visible. Votes: 0

One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud. Votes: 0

For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable. Votes: 0

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second. Votes: 0

The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative. Votes: 0

The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something. Votes: 0

Sometimes you feel uncomfortable taking a photograph, but that's all part of the job. Votes: 0

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum. Votes: 0

The formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph. Votes: 0

Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph. Votes: 0

A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made. Votes: 0

If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph. Votes: 0

I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music. Votes: 0

I would drown in objects if I didn't have the ability to photograph them. Votes: 0

I choose colors I like and will photograph well. I don't do color theory! Votes: 0

Stop and go: always on some journey. My bounty is a photograph or two. Votes: 0

Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me? Votes: 0

A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is. Votes: 0

[When I photograph] I project what I'm not. What I would like to be. Votes: 0

A Company should be viewed as an unfolding movie, not as a still photograph Votes: 0

I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document. Votes: 0

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person. Votes: 0

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us. Votes: 0

A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words. Votes: 0

A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else. Votes: 0

Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world. Votes: 0

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph. Votes: 0

I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife. Votes: 0

A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music. Votes: 0

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. Votes: 0

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person, Votes: 0

The photograph is married to the eye, Grafts on its bride one-sided skins of truth.... Votes: 0

The photograph, after all, is just a photograph. Words will determine its meaning and status. Votes: 0

I have never taken a photograph without one thought in my head to amuse myself. Votes: 0

I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea. Votes: 0

If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it's a street photograph Votes: 0

A photograph has picked up a fact of life, and that fact will live forever. Votes: 0

A photograph gives us the naked truth,which has to be clothed by the imagination. Votes: 0

I photograph different people all the time. I like to shoot all kinds of people. Votes: 0

The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best, Votes: 0

Carloads of tourists would photograph the family mailbox, and there was weird mail, death threats. Votes: 0

A photograph is a moment when you press the button. It will never come back. Votes: 0

I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks. Votes: 0

I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks." Votes: 0

I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am. Votes: 0

Time past cannot be stopped, saved, or regained. But a photograph allows you to borrow it. Votes: 0

If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history. Votes: 0

For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken." Votes: 0

[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality. Votes: 0

For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken. Votes: 0

Emailing a meaningful photograph to someone who is not expecting it can change a relationship forever. Votes: 0

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality. Votes: 0

It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything! Votes: 0

Different people can photograph the same things with the same tools and create such different images. Votes: 0

It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything! Votes: 0

I feel totally responsible for what I see. I feel totally responsible for what I photograph. Votes: 0

A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see Votes: 0

I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be, Votes: 0

There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it's not a photograph. Votes: 0

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity. Votes: 0

The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it. Votes: 0

One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is. Votes: 0

The only thing that gets in the way of a really good photograph, is the camera Votes: 0

This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand. Votes: 0

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are. Votes: 0

I kiss her ghost, and sleep with the dust on her photograph, next to my bedside. Votes: 0

The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me. Votes: 0

The purpose of the photograph is to reveal the love that is felt in a single image. Votes: 0

I'm in love with the markets of the world. It's a photograph of a city, a culture. Votes: 0

It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time. Votes: 0

You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens. Votes: 0

My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph. Votes: 0

How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph! Votes: 0

Perhaps the most important people that I should photograph are the people who don't have a voice. Votes: 0

I never photograph sunsets and I never photograph moonrises. I'm not interested in what things look like. Votes: 0

I am too old to know how to put a naked photograph of myself on the Internet. Votes: 0

You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you. Votes: 0

A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit. Votes: 0

Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph. Votes: 0

If you think you're going to create an unposed photograph, think again. There is no such thing. Votes: 0

Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader. Votes: 0

To photograph people is to obligate them in some way to face things they weren't expecting to. Votes: 0

I didn't throw myself off my balcony only because I knew people would photograph me lying dead. Votes: 0

Life is a photograph too, so thank you,for not removing yourself from the picture just yet. Votes: 0

I want my photos to be fresh and urgent. A good photograph should be a call to arms. Votes: 0

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph. Votes: 0

Drones photograph, prospect and advertise real estate from golf courses to skyscrapers; they also monitor construction in progress. Votes: 0

The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how. Votes: 0

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. Votes: 0

The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism. Votes: 0

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. Votes: 0

I love doing commercials! Usually, they have enough money that they can take time and photograph it well. Votes: 0

The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel. Votes: 0

I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface. Votes: 0

To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real. Votes: 0

The trouble with flowers is that invariably, when I'm ready to photograph them, they are not in season. Votes: 0

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence. Votes: 0

This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. Votes: 0

Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot. Votes: 0

You should keep a photograph of Mick Lyons on the mantlepiece to keep children away from the fire Votes: 0

I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time. Votes: 0

The viewer is yet another eye that is part of the compact that makes a photograph what it is. Votes: 0

I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is. Votes: 0

I look at a photograph. What's going on? What's happening, photographically? If it's interesting, I try to understand why. Votes: 0

I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something. Votes: 0

I photograph what I do not wish to paint, and I paint what I do not wish to photograph Votes: 0

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from. Votes: 0

To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart. Votes: 0

...my way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things... Votes: 0

The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment. Votes: 0

I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence. Votes: 0

I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze. Votes: 0

Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph. Votes: 0

I don't regret the numerous pictures of Brigitte Bardot, but I'd rather have a good photograph of my father. Votes: 0

What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values. Votes: 0

If you finish like a photograph, on the other hand, the picture has as much personality as a photograph. Votes: 0

If you are truly successful in capturing the pulse of life, then you can speak of a good photograph. Votes: 0

Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little. Votes: 0

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men. Votes: 0

It's not that I don't care about content, but content is not the only way a photograph has meaning. Votes: 0

I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result. Votes: 0

My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph. Votes: 0

A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue. Votes: 0

My wife sent her photograph to the lonely hearts club. They sent it back, said they weren't that lonely. Votes: 0

I've never liked the word 'celebrity.' I like to photograph people who are good at what they do. Votes: 0

Irving Penn said he didn't want to photograph anyone under 60, and I think there is some truth about it. Votes: 0

If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger. Votes: 0

As Estelle Jussim wrote, it is almost impossible for a single photograph to state both the problem and the solution. Votes: 0

It's not enough that [the photograph] is beautiful. If it doesn't move my heart, it won't move anyone else's heart. Votes: 0

The photograph suggests that our image of reality is made up of images. It makes explicit the domination of mediation. Votes: 0

Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Votes: 0

People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment... when one thing changes into something else. Votes: 0

If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire. Votes: 0

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting. Votes: 0

A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression. Votes: 0

Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it. Votes: 0

The way that light hits objects in life, three-dimensional objects before you photograph them, is really the story of photography. Votes: 0

I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels. Votes: 0

My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself. Votes: 0

Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind. Votes: 0

It's been a strange [summer].... I was sent by a magazine to photograph famous photographers.... Of course, I included myself. Votes: 0

It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air. Votes: 0

Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings. Votes: 0

The more story-appeal there is in the picture or in the photograph, the more people would look at your ad Votes: 0

Like an old photograph, time can make a feeling fade, but the memory of a first love never fades away. Votes: 0

I don't believe so much in the value of a single picture anymore. I don't really photograph for the wall. Votes: 0

The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture. Votes: 0

Looking at my own prom photograph reminds me of how significant that moment was - and how fleeting life is. Votes: 0

A piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as 'material' as a ton of lead. Votes: 0

The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time. Votes: 0

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space. Votes: 0

I realize that as I get more experience as I get older, my perception changes and that feeds the photograph. Votes: 0

If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. Votes: 0

We all die twice - once when we actually die and once when no one on earth recognizes our photograph. Votes: 0

I still dream of the day when I will take a photograph so beautiful that it can be called love. Votes: 0

Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem. Votes: 0

[A photograph] is a part of the evidence. I'm not saying it's the truth - it's part of the evidence. Votes: 0

I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them. Votes: 0

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much. Votes: 0

Photorealism's goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can't beat a printer, and I have a really nice printer. Votes: 0

I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone. Votes: 0

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, we shall, in an emotional sense, acquire an additional dimension... Votes: 0

The subject gives you the best idea of how to make a photograph. So I just wait for something to happen. Votes: 0

I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people. Votes: 0

When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead. Votes: 0

A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation. Votes: 0

People photograph everything and nothing - no interaction is deemed to have actually happened unless somebody has a picture of it, Votes: 0

The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography. Votes: 0

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes. Votes: 0

A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience. Votes: 0

The more I photograph women, the less it is about transformation. Women are beautiful. All that really matters is enhancing that Votes: 0

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual. Votes: 0

My chief joy is to photograph the great in heart, in mind, and in spirit, whether they be famous or humble. Votes: 0

What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use. Votes: 0

The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability. Votes: 0

As is often said of photography, this photograph is a frozen moment. A frozen moment is not a moment at all. Votes: 0

Doesn't the world inside a black and white photograph seem more real? It's because the real world is losing its color Votes: 0

For me a photograph is most successful when it doesn't answer all the questions and it leaves something to be desired. Votes: 0

There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply. Votes: 0

I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone." Votes: 0

I'm much more about the emotion that a photograph provokes out of you and less about how technically brilliant it is. Votes: 0

I try to photograph what can't be photographed - psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality. Votes: 0

A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend? Votes: 0

In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life. Votes: 0

A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative. Votes: 0

I don't need to know anything about the people I photograph, but it's important that I recognize something about myself in them. Votes: 0

In a still photograph you basically have two variables, where you stand and when you press the shutter. That's all you have. Votes: 0

If you run into a monkey in some idiot context, automatically you've got a very real problem taking place in the photograph. Votes: 0

Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It’s like stealing something valuable they don’t even know they own. Votes: 0

I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention. Votes: 0

I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph. Votes: 0

The photograph that discovers and uncovers the world is harder to simulate than an image that simply illustrates one's ideas about it. Votes: 0

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph. Votes: 0

The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it. Votes: 0

I don't go out looking for pictures. I go out, and if something catches my eye, that's reason enough to photograph it. Votes: 0

When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul! Votes: 0

Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty. Votes: 0

The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall. Votes: 0

I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn't destroyed them. Votes: 0

Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, "Gee, I'm glad I have that moment." Votes: 0

I feel all things as dynamic events, being, changing, and interacting with each other in space and time even as I photograph them. Votes: 0

[The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross). Votes: 0

You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea. Votes: 0

...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph. Votes: 0

In making portraits, I refuse to photograph myself as do so many photographers. My style is the style of the people I photograph. Votes: 0

It is the unexpected and the surprise quality of a personal vision, rather than the emotion, which make people respond to a photograph. Votes: 0

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph. Votes: 0

There's this way that photography is always about going out searching. I'm not the kind of a photographer who can photograph my home. Votes: 0

I don't believe that you can talk about a photograph being true or false. I don't think such a claim has any meaning. Votes: 0

Reading haiku is like viewing a photograph or a painting. A haiku is a moment of time, isolated, and held up for viewing. Votes: 0

The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph. Votes: 0

A photograph can, by the addition of an unimportant spot of color, become a photomontage, a work of art of a special kind. Votes: 0

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film. Votes: 0

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium. Votes: 0

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me. Votes: 0

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness. Votes: 0

The photograph is to a great degree evidence of the conversation I had with the person. It's a part of my visual diary. Votes: 0

You'll reach into your wallet to brandish a photograph of a new puppy, and a friend will say, 'Oh, no - not pictures. Votes: 0

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph. Votes: 0

There is a word we haven't used yet: virginity... To make a photograph, the plate must be virgin, but your eye as well. Votes: 0

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. Votes: 0

As a child, people were always trying to photograph and film me because it's a way for a shy person to find themselves. Votes: 0

I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are. Votes: 0

I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses. Votes: 0

Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of. Votes: 0

A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow. Votes: 0

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph. Votes: 0

This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. Then I might have a chance of getting in Hollywood. Votes: 0

An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive. Votes: 0

We do not see everything in the environment in the complete, totally resolved, explicit character of the photograph. We, in fact, prioritize our seeing. Votes: 0

Sometimes I photograph without looking through the viewfinder. I have mastered that well enough, it is almost as if I were looking through it. Votes: 0

The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated Votes: 0

I never look for a photograph. The photograph finds me and says, I'm here! and I say, Yes, I see you. I hear you. Votes: 0

The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art. Votes: 0

A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts. Votes: 0

The idea that a fashion photograph could make you cry doesn't happen. And I'm proud to say that my slideshows can make people cry. Votes: 0

Perhaps most intriguing of all is that it is possible to photograph what is impossible for the human eye to see - cumulative time. Votes: 0

What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph. Votes: 0

We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty. Votes: 0

Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo albums. Votes: 0

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything. Votes: 0

In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime itself. Votes: 0

At a certain point, the soul exits from a cherished photograph, because we have come to the end of our loving projection into that moment. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve? Votes: 0

If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph. Votes: 0

The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of labor. Votes: 0

A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming through a stained glass window in a cathedral. Votes: 0

It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way. Votes: 0

There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite naturally and fully. Votes: 0

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have... Votes: 0

I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day. Votes: 0

Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide. Votes: 0

A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos. Votes: 0

One day the photograph is going to become even more important than it is now.... But I am not particularly an advocate of the photograph. Votes: 0

A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually get. Votes: 0

I don't think that there's that much difference between a photograph of a fist up someone's ass and a photograph of carnations in a bowl. Votes: 0

If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of light and time. Votes: 0

A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it. Votes: 0

Fashion has also been a great outlet, and I'd like to do more fashion photography in the future. I also photograph a lot of artists. Votes: 0

To photograph is often compared to an act of redemption - to select from an infinite number of choices that which is to be remembered. Votes: 0

The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose an experiential model. Votes: 0

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture? Votes: 0

Los Angeles has interested me for a long time. I was in Texas for five years, for the same reason. I wanted to photograph there. Votes: 0

If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as you photograph. Votes: 0

The photograph is kind of a proof - a proof that I actually met these people, that they actually have lives, and that they're worth considering. Votes: 0

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones. Votes: 0

[The photograph is] still a space to reorganize our thoughts about reality and our place in the world. How do you disentangle the surface of reality? Votes: 0

It can happen anytime, anywhere. I mean, you don't have to be in front of stuff that's going to make a good photograph. It's possible anywhere. Votes: 0

To go and photograph an airbase is not only to photograph something but it is to insist on one's right to photograph. You're flexing that right. Votes: 0

They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph. Votes: 0

I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself - for the photograph - without consideration of how it may be used. Votes: 0

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off. Votes: 0

Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a photograph. Votes: 0

I really feel lovely when I get up with my sweetheart. When I depart a photograph shoot, as a result of someway miracles have been labored. Votes: 0

Even an ugly, abject photograph bears the recording of its making... my goal [is] to create dense objects, works in which many lines of thought converge. Votes: 0

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can! Votes: 0

My biggest fear always is that I’ll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to how people are. Votes: 0

We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make. Votes: 0

If I photograph you I don't have you, I have a photograph of you. It's got its own thing. That's really what photography, still photography, is about. Votes: 0

The photograph as an object has a relationship to that which it represents something like the relationship the snake skin has to the snake that sheds it. Votes: 0

It's always more comforting to know that in any given corner of any room or any location you're on, you can make a photograph that you'll appreciate. Votes: 0

As much as I'm not a journalist, I use journalism. And when you photograph a relationship, it's quite wonderful to let something unfold in front of you. Votes: 0

When people look at a photograph, they believe it... My photographs crawl along that edge. I document the world, but from my own biased point of view. Votes: 0

Watching my daughter sort of live in this world where a photograph is not something to keep a memory. It's something to just speak with. It's language. Votes: 0

If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important as the equipment he uses. Votes: 0

[He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph. Votes: 0

My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture. Votes: 0

I'm trying to photograph an old offshore oil city that is lying in decay in the Caspian Sea, but I've been having a hard time getting there. Votes: 0

A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever. Votes: 0

Every photograph could be set up. If one could imagine it, one could set it up. The whole discussion is a way of not talking about photographs. Votes: 0

I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home. Votes: 0

A fan once stopped me outside a theatre and gave me as a gift a signed photograph of Sir Laurence Olivier. It was strange, but nice, too. Votes: 0

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment. Votes: 0

[He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph. Votes: 0

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting. Votes: 0

Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time. Votes: 0

You can carry a photograph with you on a thumb drive, and you can make it bigger or smaller - it's a very malleable form of mass production. Votes: 0

I was looking at a photograph of the 1997 election campaign yesterday, and I thought: 'My God. Did I really have that hairstyle? And that Tory blue suit?' Votes: 0

A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think you can get more than that. Votes: 0

To enter Europe, you must have a valid passport with a photograph of yourself in which you look like you are being booked on charges of soliciting sheep. Votes: 0

Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars. Votes: 0

I love having the photograph in my hand. I love looking at the photograph. I love looking at a box of photographs. I just love the still photograph. Votes: 0

Great claims are being made for the photograph as truth. We are showing you things, we show you the war. I say you can't actually. The camera can't. Votes: 0

Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the very act of looking. Votes: 0

Often I have struggled for days to get the image of the photograph to overlap the spirit I see. It is an awesome responsibility, and a lonely one. Votes: 0

There is a big difference between The Merchant of Venice and a photograph of two males of different races in an erotic pose on a marble table top. Votes: 0

I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get together for a formal family photograph. Votes: 0

I have a terror of things being nice and knowing what to expect. Making a photograph is a license to have experiences that I would not otherwise have. Votes: 0

If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me. Votes: 0

But I do not know whether the photograph can, or does, say things as they really are. Something has been lost. But the representation is all we have. Votes: 0

When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was a mirror of my Self. Votes: 0

Taking a photograph is a lot like falling in love. You see a light and it intrigues you; and you want to see or be in that light forever. Votes: 0

I am a postmodern romantic. I try to use their way to photograph, and at the same time, incorporate the problems that I feel in a country like Guatemala. Votes: 0

It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be a record or a testimony. Votes: 0

A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house. Except for the chrome hooks, he was an ordinary-looking man of fifty or so. Votes: 0

The eye is made to see and not to think.... A good photograph is a surprise. How could we plan and foresee a surprise? We just have to be ready. Votes: 0

When I photograph someone, I want to shoot the subject and get them out of my studio so I can play with the photos and do all the stuff I want. Votes: 0

In a Cafe" I watched a man in a cafe fold a slice of bread as if he were folding a birth certificate or looking at the photograph of a dead lover. Votes: 0