Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas. Votes: 3
Francis BaconPhotographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories. Votes: 3
Sally MannLife is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. Votes: 3
Susan SontagPhotographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real. Votes: 3
Susan SontagPhotographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories. Votes: 3
Wim WendersPhotographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future Votes: 3
Sally MannPhotographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent. Votes: 3
Isabel AllendePhotographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second. Votes: 3
David HockneyPhotographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed. Votes: 3
Susan SontagPhotographs are never records of the way things are; they're records of the way things were. Votes: 3
John Paul CaponigroYou have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film. Votes: 3
Arthur EricksonOur photographs often live longer than us! Not forever, but only longer! Votes: 1
Mehmet Murat ildando not take pictures to please the public, the photo should be spontaneous and free Votes: 1
Betty Polukif you have the tools but do not have the visual concept, the tools do not work Votes: 1
Betty PolukImages last for ever, our minds don't - capture what you can before the time runs out. Votes: 1
Sam PopeWhat do you need with a good selfie once you post it? Why, a great caption of course! Votes: 1
Ken PoirotIn my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter. Votes: 1
Jerzy KosinskiSongs can be like photos - they hold a memory, a moment, and thoughts that keep you warm inside. Votes: 1
Judy MooreIt (taking photographs) is all about longingwithout longing-no pictures at all. Votes: 0
Anders PetersenI took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture. Votes: 0
Shirley KnightPortraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject. Votes: 0
Victor SkrebneskiWhat would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life. Votes: 0
William KleinLight is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations. Votes: 0
Catherine OpieNever stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs Votes: 0
Art WolfeI think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious. Votes: 0
Jerry UelsmannAll photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable. Votes: 0
Susan SontagHe made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment. Votes: 0
Henri Cartier-BressonWhich of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow. Votes: 0
Imogen CunninghamI have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs. Votes: 0
David LaChapelleHowever much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth. Votes: 0
Wright MorrisYou've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made. Votes: 0
Garry WinograndBut empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm. Votes: 0
Jock SturgesThere are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women. Votes: 0
Laurence J. PeterBecause we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards. Votes: 0
ChristoWhenever I am tired of making photographs of drawings, I make drawings of photographs. Votes: 0
Vik MunizI can't be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron) Votes: 0
Alfred Lord TennysonTime eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art. Votes: 0
Susan SontagPhotographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. Votes: 0
Alfred StieglitzA meaningful conceptual basis is always more important than vivid photographs, and vice versa. Votes: 0
Douglas McCullohThe world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different. Votes: 0
John SzarkowskiI have two pairs of eyes " one to paint and one to take photographs. Votes: 0
Jacques-Henri LartigueWhich of my photographs is my favorite? The one Im going to take tomorrow. Votes: 0
Imogen CunninghamAnd I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths. Votes: 0
Leonard CohenThe photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved. Votes: 0
Robert MapplethorpeI want to make photographs of very elegant women taking the lipstick off their teeth. Votes: 0
Cecil BeatonThe modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it. Votes: 0
D. H. LawrenceMy wealth is measured not in money but in photographs, not in quantity but creativity. Votes: 0
Destin SparksThe collection of photographs is a statement about the relationship of my camera and me. Votes: 0
Ray MetzkerI don't use photographs because photographs don't give me the kind of information I need. Votes: 0
Alex ColvillePeople taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States. Votes: 0
Louis de BernieresComics are drawings, not photographs, and as such they present a subjective view of reality. Votes: 0
Frederik L. SchodtBut huge photographs of dead bodies are slightly different. I couldn't find much humor there. Votes: 0
PJ HarveyWe'd make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me. (On modeling for Alfred Stieglitz) Votes: 0
Georgia O'KeeffeYou can get anything from Mozilla Firefox-based themes to nature themes to your own photographs. Votes: 0
Mitchell BakerMemories have no life. They're just pale reminders of a time that's gone-like faded photographs. Votes: 0
Kevin BrooksEveryoneâs chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-shaped holes. Votes: 0
Andrea GibsonIf there is pain in my photographs, it relates to the pain in my own existence. Votes: 0
Joel-Peter WitkinTo take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis Votes: 0
Henri Cartier-BressonI wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography. Votes: 0
Jean-Marc BustamanteHaving photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano. Votes: 0
Nicholas HaslamThe lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning. Votes: 0
Paul TherouxI believe you can use photographs to meditate on and work through things in your life. Votes: 0
Todd HidoThose who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future. Votes: 0
Walter BenjaminAuthenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs! Votes: 0
Rachel KushnerI never take photographs myself. I donât feel like a photographer, more like a recycler Votes: 0
Christian BoltanskiAll colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs. Votes: 0
Vladimir NabokovI want my photographs to say: "Look-there's this thing you haven't seen that you should see." Votes: 0
Emmet GowinNorthern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs. Votes: 0
Jeremy HardyAmong the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence. Votes: 0
Robert AdamsI'm even taller in person, because photographs shrink you down and steal your soul native american. Votes: 0
Thom YorkeIt's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore. Votes: 0
Garry WinograndWhen you travel, take many photographs of the place to have a historical memories of the place. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaOne study found that people who smile in childhood photographs are less likely to get a divorce. Votes: 0
Jenna McCarthyLanguage is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs. Votes: 0
Catherine OpieOur photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic. Votes: 0
Al GoldsteinNo, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs. Votes: 0
Charlie HunnamI look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive. Votes: 0
Barbara CookAll the faces on the photographs have changed,To not confuse it all, the names remain the same Votes: 0
AntimatterThere are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment. Votes: 0
Jeanloup SieffI did find a wonderful girl last year, but the photographs that we did were more about motorcars. Votes: 0
Helmut NewtonOnly lost photographs that were never taken know what my mind speaks of when we are alone together. Votes: 0
Daniel J. RiceYou can easily take photographs at a wedding - no one would question it. But funerals are different. Votes: 0
Martin ParrA lot of my hair and makeup, and everything I pull for inspiration, is [drawn] from old photographs. Votes: 0
Emmy RossumI don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot. Votes: 0
William EgglestonI have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs. Votes: 0
Alfred StieglitzTo engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye. Votes: 0
Minor WhiteThe photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them. Votes: 0
Helmut NewtonI know that if I were to take ugly photographs, no one would be interested in looking at them. Votes: 0
Chris JordanI would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war. Votes: 0
W. Eugene SmithI never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help. Votes: 0
Ruth BernhardI loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of. Votes: 0
Charles BukowskiI wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death. Votes: 0
Joel-Peter WitkinMy life and work are not separate. I just have more roles than other people. And I have photographs. Votes: 0
Nikki S. LeeI don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own. Votes: 0
Jamie BellI never really made any money and it certainly cost me more to take photographs than I got for them. Votes: 0
Dennis HopperMany of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie. Votes: 4 Wim Wenders
I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.' Votes: 4 Matt Roper
Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations. Votes: 1 Catherine Opie
I never thought I was particularly good looking. But when I see old photographs, I realise that I was. I do wish I had known that at the time because beauty is power. I didn't realise how lucky I was to be young, beautiful and in Hollywood. It didn't hit me. Every day I woke up, went to the film studio and just got on with it. Votes: 1 Joan Collins