Quotes about Photographs

Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas. Votes: 3

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel. Votes: 3

Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!! Votes: 3

Photographs... are the most curious indicators of reality. Votes: 3

Photographs are two-dimensional. I work in four dimensions. Votes: 3

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

Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies. Votes: 3

Photographs have a relevance for things that cannot be said. Votes: 3

Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things. Votes: 3

Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas. Votes: 3

Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories. Votes: 3

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. Votes: 3

Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me. Votes: 3

Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real. Votes: 3

Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories. Votes: 3

Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent. Votes: 3

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future Votes: 3

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second. Votes: 3

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed. Votes: 3

Photographs are never records of the way things are; they're records of the way things were. Votes: 3

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film. Votes: 3

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

Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings. Votes: 3

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

Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed. Votes: 3

Photographs capture only the moments; but since every moment is very important in human life, every photo is also very important! Votes: 3

Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst. 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

Photographs are the results of a diminution of solar energy, and the camera is an entropic machine for recording gradual loss of light. Votes: 3

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past. Votes: 3

Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what is there. Votes: 3

The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of the past, like flies in amber. Votes: 3

Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something that is different from our own setting. Votes: 3

Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more, but images we have of that reality. Votes: 3

Usually I think if there is something imperfect in a photograph it makes the picture more real. Photographs that are slick, smooth, and imperfect seem less honest to me. Votes: 3

My selfie my life! Votes: 1

The camera photographs what's there. Votes: 1

Pragmatism is good prevention for problems. Votes: 1

Spoil all the walls with sellotape marks. Votes: 1

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. Votes: 1

Lovers tend to be philosophical, achievers are practical. Votes: 1

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. Votes: 1

All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library. Votes: 1

A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy. Votes: 1

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. Votes: 1

Our photographs often live longer than us! Not forever, but only longer! Votes: 1

A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy. Votes: 1

My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me. Votes: 1

I photography women as I liked to fell in love of them. Votes: 1

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture. Votes: 1

do not take pictures to please the public, the photo should be spontaneous and free Votes: 1

if you have the tools but do not have the visual concept, the tools do not work Votes: 1

Images last for ever, our minds don't - capture what you can before the time runs out. Votes: 1

I became fascinated by the notion of dispelling stereotypes or misconceptions through photography, of presenting the counterintuitive. Votes: 1

What do you need with a good selfie once you post it? Why, a great caption of course! Votes: 1

In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter. Votes: 1

Songs can be like photos - they hold a memory, a moment, and thoughts that keep you warm inside. Votes: 1

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another. Votes: 1

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. Votes: 1

We do not make photographs with our cameras. We make them with our minds, with our hearts, with our ideas. Votes: 1

Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this. Votes: 1

There is always something sad about the old photographs, it is because we know that people in the photos have gone forever. Votes: 1

In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life. Votes: 1

I used to capture the vastness and the immensity of the world and confine it to the limited pages of the parchment. Votes: 1

There are some old photographs from where if you take anything out, even a chicken or a little bird, the magic will disappear. Votes: 1

I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it's something fantastic. They're willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy. Votes: 1

Our thoughts, feelings and whereabouts: Food we dish up on plates called photographs and status updates; to feed Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.; beasts with insatiable appetites. Votes: 1

The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious. Votes: 1

Any files I give to the model are downsized (typically 800x1200 pixels)By not giving out my high resolution files, they cannot be used without my knowledge. Votes: 1

Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop. Votes: 1

I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs. Votes: 1

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: 1

What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own. Votes: 1

And you asked why people always expected you to smile in photographs. And I told you it was because they hoped that in the future, there would be something to smile about Votes: 1

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not. Votes: 1

When you take a photo, you often take your own reality into your camera - the reality that you shaped in your mind - and not the real reality over there, whatever it is! Votes: 1

My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living. Votes: 1

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her. Votes: 1

They were both smiling so hard, it was surprising the frame could contain the happiness of that moment, surprising that it didn't shatter into a million pieces, floating all over the funeral home like dust. Votes: 1

Archaeologists gave the military the idea to use aerial photographs for spying and field survey. We are fortunate that the spatial and spectral resolutions of the imagery available to us are so broadly useful for archaeology. Votes: 1

A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they're just being ordinary men, they've got quite sad faces. Votes: 1

Getting a new passport took me a stupid amount of time. I had to go back five times with different photographs because they kept saying I was smiling, which is against the rules. I was not smiling. Votes: 1

My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished. Votes: 1

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work. Votes: 1

LaMont, the truth is that the world is incredibly, incredibly, unbelievably old. You suffer with the stunted desire caused by one of its oldest lies. Do not believe the photographs. Fame is not the exit from any cage. Votes: 1

It was the same smile he used in bed with Crick--the gentle, sweet smile that made him look young and a little vulnerable. Crick turned the picture around, and Benny had written, I asked him to think of you. Votes: 1

Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning. Votes: 1

Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you can return to again and again and will always remember, no matter how much time goes by. Votes: 1

In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show. Votes: 1

I have a big box of autographs. I took photographs of me and Marlene Dietrich, me and Ida Lupino. I took pictures of Myrna Loy and Joel McCrea in front of the studios. I loved Hollywood. I have 500 autographs and 500 photographs I took. Votes: 1

Look at the people in the very old photographs! They are gone forever but they still can give us messages with their eyes, they still can touch our hearts with their looks and they still can give us courage with their standing upright! Votes: 1

(When)When you call me nugget.When you take pictures of me.When you dance.When you complement me.When you laugh.When your eyes squint as you smile.When we make love when we're sick.I fall more in love with you. Votes: 1

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: 1

The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs. Votes: 1

Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of my photographs - an abstract image of the landscape and life of northern Ohio where I grew up and first practiced photography. Votes: 1

He will miss this quiet full of noise: the nighthawks, the way the woods breathe, the things moving unsuspected through the dark. But he will take with him the canisters full of blasted images and have the pleasure of living them again. They are not nothing, the memories. Votes: 1

I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more. Votes: 1

There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says. Votes: 1

I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international photographer Eve Arnold and I know it sounds horrible but when she dies all her pictures are going to be worth triple. But I won't tell you how much I got them for - let's just say it was a lot. Votes: 1

Those static images have the uncanny ability to jar the memory and bring places and people back to life. They bridge the present with the past and validate as real what the passage of time has turned into hazy recollections. Were it not for them, my experiences would have remained as just imperfect memories of perfect moments. Votes: 1

I have been so very, very fortunate in my life. I've met or been in contact with several of my childhood heroes. I've interacted with people all over this planet, and even though I couldn't possibly hope to remember all their names, I remember a photograph, a poem, a sound, a joke, kind words of encouragement. All is not lost. Votes: 1

old photographs are very deceiving, they give us the illusion that we are alive in them, and it's not true, the person we are looking at no longer exists, and if that person could see us, he or she would not recognise him -- or herself in us, 'Who's that looking at me so sadly,' he or she would say. Votes: 1

A mirror can trick you day by day into thinking you remain looking and existing in one way forever. But a photograph presents you with the truth: it freezes you eternally, existing as a reminder that you can never, ever go back to any one moment again- that you are always changing, hour by hour, cell by cell, in tiny fragments that build skyscrapers overnight. Votes: 1

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

I hate red-carpet photographs! Votes: 0

All photographs are self-portraits. Votes: 0

Facts cling to photographs like dust. Votes: 0

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. Votes: 0

Things just enter reality through photographs. Votes: 0

Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you. Votes: 0

I hate being the subject of photographs. Votes: 0

People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs. Votes: 0

There are no photographs while I'm reloading . Votes: 0

People say photographs don't lie, mine do. Votes: 0

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. Votes: 0

I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious, Votes: 0

I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious. Votes: 0

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

The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling. Votes: 0

Memory does not make films, it makes photographs. Votes: 0

Exile is a series of photographs without texts. Votes: 0

To collect photographs is to collect the world. Votes: 0

I'm interested in photographs that have no personal signature. Votes: 0

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination. Votes: 0

All photographs are far more important than any painting. Votes: 0

The best photographs are made by the best people. Votes: 0

My photographs recall the memories of the human race. Votes: 0

I used to take photographs just to remember people. Votes: 0

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. Votes: 0

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight. Votes: 0

When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less "how." Votes: 0

The simple fact is this: There are no neutral photographs. Votes: 0

There are parts of me I only recognize from photographs. Votes: 0

Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera. Votes: 0

All we ever see of stars are their old photographs. Votes: 0

There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals. Votes: 0

It (taking photographs) is all about longingwithout longing-no pictures at all. Votes: 0

Sometimes you remember your life in photographs that were never taken. Votes: 0

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art. Votes: 0

Practice the mechanics of making photographs until it becomes second nature. Votes: 0

It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy. Votes: 0

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

My father has made a museum with my cuttings and photographs. Votes: 0

Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs? Votes: 0

I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture. Votes: 0

Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject. Votes: 0

I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group. Votes: 0

If you can take photographs with language, I'm taking one right now. Votes: 0

No new photographs until all the old ones have been used up. Votes: 0

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection. Votes: 0

My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century. Votes: 0

He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment. Votes: 0

Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations. Votes: 0

What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life. Votes: 0

All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable. Votes: 0

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs. Votes: 0

Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs Votes: 0

Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty. Votes: 0

Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs. Votes: 0

Everyone wants to look good in photographs, even us trolls who tell jokes. Votes: 0

I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs. Votes: 0

I was making photographs of the world long before I was a photographer. Votes: 0

I have looked at so many photographs, I can not see them anymore. Votes: 0

I don't know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me. Votes: 0

I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious. Votes: 0

But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm. Votes: 0

Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. Votes: 0

The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different. Votes: 0

A meaningful conceptual basis is always more important than vivid photographs, and vice versa. Votes: 0

Whenever I am tired of making photographs of drawings, I make drawings of photographs. Votes: 0

I can't be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron) Votes: 0

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art. Votes: 0

Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards. Votes: 0

There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women. Votes: 0

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow. Votes: 0

If you don't have anything to say, your photographs aren't going to say much. Votes: 0

The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs. Votes: 0

However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth. Votes: 0

I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs. Votes: 0

You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made. Votes: 0

The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved. Votes: 0

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow. Votes: 0

Comics are drawings, not photographs, and as such they present a subjective view of reality. Votes: 0

We'd make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me. (On modeling for Alfred Stieglitz) Votes: 0

But huge photographs of dead bodies are slightly different. I couldn't find much humor there. Votes: 0

I don't use photographs because photographs don't give me the kind of information I need. Votes: 0

You can get anything from Mozilla Firefox-based themes to nature themes to your own photographs. Votes: 0

I have two pairs of eyes "“ one to paint and one to take photographs. Votes: 0

Memories have no life. They're just pale reminders of a time that's gone-like faded photographs. Votes: 0

Never pose your subjects. Let them move about naturally... All great photographs today are snapshots. Votes: 0

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States. Votes: 0

Everyone’s chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-shaped holes. Votes: 0

The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it. Votes: 0

The collection of photographs is a statement about the relationship of my camera and me. Votes: 0

And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths. Votes: 0

I want to make photographs of very elegant women taking the lipstick off their teeth. Votes: 0

We are judged, not by the photographs we take, but by the photographs we show. Votes: 0

My wealth is measured not in money but in photographs, not in quantity but creativity. Votes: 0

All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs. Votes: 0

To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis Votes: 0

If there is pain in my photographs, it relates to the pain in my own existence. Votes: 0

Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future. Votes: 0

I wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography. Votes: 0

Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence. Votes: 0

Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano. Votes: 0

I want my photographs to say: "Look-there's this thing you haven't seen that you should see." Votes: 0

The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning. Votes: 0

I'm even taller in person, because photographs shrink you down and steal your soul native american. Votes: 0

I believe you can use photographs to meditate on and work through things in your life. Votes: 0

I never take photographs myself. I don’t feel like a photographer, more like a recycler Votes: 0

The cartoon absolutely captures something that acres and acres of copy can't. And even photographs can't. Votes: 0

I barely remembered my father; I'm confused between genuine memory and the few photographs that survived. Votes: 0

Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs! Votes: 0

Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs. Votes: 0

The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth. Votes: 0

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic. Votes: 0

Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs. Votes: 0

Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary. Votes: 0

Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods. Votes: 0

When you travel, take many photographs of the place to have a historical memories of the place. Votes: 0

One study found that people who smile in childhood photographs are less likely to get a divorce. Votes: 0

Unless it hurts, unless there's some vulnerability there, I don't think you're going to get good photographs. Votes: 0

... to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs. Votes: 0

Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged. Votes: 0

It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore. Votes: 0

The way we dress on 'Mad Men' is so associated with old photographs, with people's parents and grandparents. Votes: 0

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce. Votes: 0

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce. Votes: 0

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

If I feel confident wearing something, I think it translates in photographs. It changes my demeanor and posture. Votes: 0

Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.) Votes: 0

I absolutely forbade all public photographs of myself. I like photography, I don't have anything against it, but... Votes: 0

Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see. Votes: 0

Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography. Votes: 0

The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed. Votes: 0

There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment. Votes: 0

I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive. Votes: 0

I did find a wonderful girl last year, but the photographs that we did were more about motorcars. Votes: 0

All the faces on the photographs have changed,To not confuse it all, the names remain the same Votes: 0

You can easily take photographs at a wedding - no one would question it. But funerals are different. Votes: 0

Only lost photographs that were never taken know what my mind speaks of when we are alone together. Votes: 0

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs. Votes: 0

A lot of my hair and makeup, and everything I pull for inspiration, is [drawn] from old photographs. Votes: 0

I think all photographs lie. They capture such a small amount of a person's personality, if they capture anything. Votes: 0

... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest. Votes: 0

I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs. Votes: 0

Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these Abu Ghraib photographs did. Votes: 0

I left Facebook after Facebook groups began appearing about me and suddenly your personal photographs start becoming public property. Votes: 0

I like photographs of anything uninteresting. Maybe just two doors on a wall... The point is to be uninteresting. Votes: 0

To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye. Votes: 0

Poetic and speculative photographs can result if one works carefully and accurately, yet letting chance relationships have full play. Votes: 0

The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them. Votes: 0

I know that if I were to take ugly photographs, no one would be interested in looking at them. Votes: 0

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history. Votes: 0

Most photographs take their cues from advertising, where the priority is high image content for an easy Gestalt reading. Votes: 0

People who take photographs during their whole vacation won't remember their vacation. They'll only remember what photographs they took. Votes: 0

The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past. Votes: 0

I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts. Votes: 0

The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs. Votes: 0

My life and work are not separate. I just have more roles than other people. And I have photographs. Votes: 0

I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war. Votes: 0

I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death. Votes: 0

I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories. Votes: 0

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help. Votes: 0

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of. Votes: 0

I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot. Votes: 0

That's who comes to my workshops. I jokingly tell my students that the class could be called "Your photographs: Better." Votes: 0

The documentation about the work isn't of real importance to me either. I've done lots of works without taking photographs. Votes: 0

My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs. Votes: 0

The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture. Votes: 0

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism. Votes: 0

Counterterrorism analysts have known for years that al Qaeda prepares for attacks with elaborate 'targeting packages' of photographs and notes. Votes: 0

All the publicity, the attention, the interviews, the photographs, were too much for me (after throwing his second no-hitter in 1938). Votes: 0

The notion that Playboy exploited women, because we showed them in beautiful photographs, sexually oriented, strikes me as rather bizarre. Votes: 0

Long before we discovered mirrors and photographs, our mothers' reflections provided us with the earliest glimpses of our female identity. Votes: 0

You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down. Votes: 0

Bernard Vonnegut, named for his paternal grandfather, was born August 29, 1914. He was a serious-looking little boy, even in informal photographs. Votes: 0

The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them. Votes: 0

I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy. Votes: 0

Of course, all my work is photographed and I also take quite a lot of photographs of work in production. Votes: 0

I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own. Votes: 0

In the end, I believe that the most important influence on my aesthetic has been the photographs I have taken. Votes: 0

I never really made any money and it certainly cost me more to take photographs than I got for them. Votes: 0

Some guys can run fast, some guys can sing, I found I could take photographs that people were interested in. Votes: 0

This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect. Votes: 0

I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs". Votes: 0

I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my relationship to photography. Votes: 0

I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs. Votes: 0

Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are. Votes: 0

It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.) Votes: 0

...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today. Votes: 0

I went through a long period when I thought my photographs were not visible - on the wall, but not visible. Votes: 0

I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture... Votes: 0

When I began taking photographs I thought they might work better in magazines, in a journalistic sense, rather than as art. Votes: 0

I appreciate photographs which celebrate harmony. I don't particularly want to look at chaos. I see enough of that at home. Votes: 0

How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story? Votes: 0

It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional. Votes: 0

I wanted to jeopardize my own image. With my image I had already produced art pieces such as videos of photographs. Votes: 0

Excellent anthology... a celebration of our goodness and our potential for growth. The sense of celebration is stretched by the beautiful photographs.... Votes: 0

I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination. 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

I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always. Votes: 0

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me. Votes: 0

In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers. Votes: 0

I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet... Votes: 0

I like to add personal touches to my decorating style, including photographs and nostalgic items that remind me of family and home. Votes: 0

Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them. Votes: 0

Merging photographs can be more real than the isolated image because reality is so much more rich than just an isolated moment. Votes: 0

I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance. Votes: 0

but it's far too late for us; ring, hair, letters, photographs--all traces of our love will be scattered then, like an anagram... Votes: 0

I don't want to take photographs that I won't recognize as myself, and myself isn't necessarily just blankly staring at the lens. Votes: 0

Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back. Votes: 0

You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.) Votes: 0

... nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of it?' Votes: 0

What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficulty? 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

If I'd only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn't have had to do all the thousands of others. Votes: 0

So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation. Votes: 0

My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident. Votes: 0

There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations. Votes: 0

... anybody who has spent time with cameras and photographs knows that images, like gravestone rubbings, are no more than impressions of the truth. Votes: 0

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.) Votes: 0

I can recall photographs of Comrade Ulbricht being embraced by Comrade Brezhnev, which must have been like putting your arms around Grant's Tomb. Votes: 0

Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was boring. Votes: 0

Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed Votes: 0

My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic. Votes: 0

With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn't know who to work with. Votes: 0

The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind. Votes: 0

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for? Votes: 0

If there is any jarring at all in my photographs, it's because we are so used to ingesting pictures of everywhere looking beautiful. Votes: 0

I like taking photographs, because I like life. And I like photographing people best of all, because most of all I love humanity. Votes: 0

The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy. Votes: 0

The sights I have just seen [at Buchenwald] are so unbelievable that I don't think I'll believe them myself until I've seen the photographs... Votes: 0

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality. Votes: 0

The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word. Votes: 0

[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication. Votes: 0

Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with each other. Votes: 0

We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women Votes: 0

I wanted to make photographs in which everything was so complex and detailed that you could look at them forever and never see everything, Votes: 0

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. Votes: 0

I'm working on a speed boat at the moment. Much more exciting. It'll really kick ass, give great photographs for the people in Bible. Votes: 0

Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths. Votes: 0

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger. Votes: 0

The way that I rationalize making photographs is because you're countering what's offensively mass-produced with something that you just want more people to see. Votes: 0

A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I wanted to make photographs that were immediate and revealing - different from traditional portraiture that called for formal distance between artist and subject. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

While making my picture window photographs, I came to think that every room was like a gigantic camera forever pointed at the same view. Votes: 0

Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me. Votes: 0

I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or monumental places. Votes: 0

They were ... pure and unadulterated photographs, and sometimes they hinted at the existence of visual truths that had escaped all other systems of detection. Votes: 0

I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera. Votes: 0

My photographs are not just about the instant of movement you capture in the camera. It's much more total, about constant movement that became static. Votes: 0

You just can't win. Men have very recent land mines in their heads. Women have recorded conversations and photographs in their heads from 15 years ago. Votes: 0

In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them. Votes: 0

You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here. Votes: 0

My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding. Votes: 0

Ive been criticised for pretty, smiley photographs, but at least someone is happy! In my mind, I am always giving the image to the sitter. Votes: 0

Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn't attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don't see. Votes: 0

I've been criticised for pretty, smiley photographs, but at least someone is happy! In my mind, I am always giving the image to the sitter. Votes: 0

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... Votes: 0

It is no coincidence that one cardinal rule in brainwashing is to remove from the victim all photographs of himself and people he has known. Votes: 0

Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and shadow. Votes: 0

Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all." Votes: 0

So many people are diverted to doing what people want photographed - fashion models, buildings, mountains - they get to thinking those photographs are good. Votes: 0

I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them in your hand. Votes: 0

When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on. Votes: 0

You can't get a guarantee from everyone who appears in personal photographs that they will forever remain warm presences in one's life or sweet memories. Votes: 0

Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all. Votes: 0

The suburban landscape is alien and strange and exotic. I photograph it out of longing and desire. My photographs are also about repression and internal angst. Votes: 0

I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination. Votes: 0

I really haven't seen this many people in one place since they took group photographs of all the criminals and lawbreakers in the Ronald Reagan administration. Votes: 0

Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth at all. Votes: 0

I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture... I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and backdrops of my photographs. Votes: 0

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: 0

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important. Votes: 0

I always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my work, the tree image. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't really have any faith in anybody enjoying photographs in a large enough sense to matter. I think it's all about finances, on one side. Votes: 0

I don't speak emotionally about my pictures. That's for other people to do. I will say that I love my photographs. That's what keeps me going. Votes: 0

It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and the imaginative. Votes: 0

The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue. Votes: 0

I think only a superb news or reportage picture could move me. Other photographs may leave a strong impression on me, but they don't move me. Votes: 0

I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do. Votes: 0

I know plenty of people who do, who get their holidays paid for and in return have their photographs taken on the beach, but not me. Votes: 0

I realized eventually that if I was really on top of what I was doing, I should be able to make photographs out of almost anything. Votes: 0

There are many photographs which are full of life but which are confusing and difficult to remember. It is the force of an image which matters. Votes: 0

I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like found objects to me. Votes: 0

She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her. Votes: 0

I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead. Votes: 0

I suppose we carry photographs now, but I think it's rather wonderful that people used to carry drawings and watercolours. I wish people did that more often. Votes: 0

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism. Votes: 0

I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography. 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

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure. Votes: 0

I have to say, taking photographs is such an instantaneous act. The recognition and the acting on the recognition, depending on your equipment, is close to instantaneous. Votes: 0

Theres no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too. 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

I'm very interested in making the photographs look real, but a lot of them are highly synthetic. They're hybrids, located somewhere between the found and the constructed. Votes: 0

In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he thinks will make the pictures. 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

In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors. Votes: 0

There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Let us... leave art to the artists, and let us try to use the medium of photography to create photographs that can endure because of their photographic qualities. Votes: 0

But there are times when thinking is misplaced, like when taking photographs. You cannot think your way to making photographs; you can photograph your way to clearer thinking. Votes: 0

[With my photographs] you have a [single, forever fixed] moment and my particular angle of vision. My tyrannical condition, as it were, is that I prescribe your vision. Votes: 0

Identical twins. I'm glad they're identical 'cause you save money on photographs. That's what I like. Yeah. Here's my little boy. I got another one just like it. Votes: 0

Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression. Votes: 0

I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me. Votes: 0

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails Votes: 0

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails. Votes: 0

There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any less truthful than any other photographs. 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

The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand. Votes: 0

If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling. Votes: 0

I want my photographs not only to be real but to portray the essence of my subjects also. In order to do that, you have to be patient. Votes: 0

I hate nothing more than sugary photographs with tricks, poses and effects. So allow me to be honest ?and tell the truth about our age and its people. Votes: 0

One of my great goals when I first started taking photographs or showing them publicly is that people might want one for over their desk. That's my goal. Votes: 0

And no photographs taken with the aid of flash light, either, if only out of respect for the actual light - even when there isn't any of it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What matters most to me is to take photographs; to continue taking them and not to repeat myself. To go further, to go as far as I can. Votes: 0

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway. Votes: 0

I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked. Votes: 0

In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to the reality of the situation. Votes: 0

The past is always with us, in the form of our photographs, which we feel as we might a rosary, wearing them smooth with the fingering of our eyes. Votes: 0

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: 0

Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown. Votes: 0

I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword. Votes: 0

We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That was a myth from the very beginning. Votes: 0

Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me there is difference between leisure and work. Votes: 0

My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most profound life experiences. Votes: 0

I collect rare photographs... I have two... One of Houdini locking his keys in his car... the other is a rare picture of Norman Rockwell beating up a child. Votes: 0

Mostly I take photographs in times of research. Whores' Glory was shot in 30 days, 10 days for each segment, but the research for each part lasted a couple of months. Votes: 0

Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They're quick things and there's a whole world in them. But one is unconscious of it while shooting. Votes: 0

When I look at pictures I have made, I have forgotten what I saw in front of the camera and respond only to what I am seeing in the photographs. Votes: 0

My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers. Votes: 0

My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers Votes: 0

When I first started learning how to take photographs, you had to spend the first six months figuring out what an f-stop was. Now you just go and take pictures. Votes: 0

It could be that people want to consume sculpture the way they consume paintings - through photographs... I'm interested in the experience of sculpture in the place where it resides. Votes: 0

Memory cannot produce a picture that Imagination has not retouched; and her pictures, even the ones least touched by Imagination, are no mere photographs, but the world of an artist. Votes: 0

For me, taking photographs is such a tortured process. I'm always feeling like I'm not getting enough: I'm in the wrong place, the light isn't good, the subject's not comfortable. Votes: 0

When we concentrate on photography, we make it possible to see the walls of photographs in black homes as a critical intervention, a disruption of white control over black images. Votes: 0

There is something about the photographs that is endlessly disturbing. The fact that we like to think of them as torture actually hides what is really deeply offensive about them. Votes: 0

Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter. Votes: 0

I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night. Votes: 0

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. Votes: 0

How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was right to say Leonardo only worked from photographs. Votes: 0

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie. Votes: 0

Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going to make these pictures. We need a record. Votes: 0

I started making photographs as if I were a child myself. This got me to look at things more closely, more slowly, and from vantage points I hadn't considered before. Votes: 0

We don't take photographs with our cameras, we take them with our hearts and our minds. They are a reflection of ourselves...wha t we are and what we think. Votes: 0

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: 0

How can my old photographs fail to create in me a feeling of emptiness and sorrow? They make me acutely aware that this second deprivation will be final this time... Votes: 0

The true authenticity of photographs for me is that they usually manipulate and lie about what is in front of the camera, but never lie about the intentions behind the camera. Votes: 0

I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs. Votes: 0

I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off. Votes: 0

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are Votes: 0

If my people are wiped out you must destroy all photographs of us, because future generations will look at our photographs and be too ashamed at such a crime against humanity. Votes: 0

I am a big admirer of Sachin and his personality. He is a source of inspiration for the country and just looking at his photographs gives a lot of positive vibes. Votes: 0

I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead. Votes: 0

I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off." Votes: 0

[In the late 80's] that's the first time I heard about that astonishing idea [that most photographs would be taken on telephones]. And now I've been watching the tsunami of images. Votes: 0

I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I think that's a slippery slope to hell. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I always look at my favourite photographs or favourite movies by James Bidgood or Sofia Coppola before I write my songs - they put me in the right frame of mind. Votes: 0

In the forensic science course I took at university they used photographs of dead bodies. For ballistics they showed us a guy lying on the floor, and his head had burst. Votes: 0

The idea of photographing an Arab man naked and having him simulate homosexual activity, and having an American GI woman in the photographs, is the end of society in their eyes. Votes: 0

I'm completely in control of creating my photographs, and I'm not always in complete control of creating a character. It's more of a way to express myself than acting is, by far. Votes: 0

You should make photographs with your heart, mind, eye & soul. The capture device is simply there to allow you to transfer your vision to a medium that you can share with others. Votes: 0

So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way. Votes: 0

Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.' My relatives seem to drop like flies around me. Who's next? Will it be someone I can't stand? Votes: 0

I don't have anything against colour. It is just not my first preference. I have always found black and white photographs to be quieter and more mysterious than those made in colour. Votes: 0

My intention is to make interesting photographs. That's it, in the end. I don't make it up. Let's say it's a world I never made. That's what was there to deal with. Votes: 0

photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing. Votes: 0

Black and white is a very minimalist art form and unlike color photographs does not pretend to mimic the world in a manner similar to the way the human eye might perceive... Votes: 0

I like to undress women - not to dress them. You know, like Manet's 'Olympia' or Helmut Newton's photographs - naked women with shoes. This is what I am trying to do. Votes: 0

Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy's jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that seduce me into believing in the image - all the time knowing better, but believing anyway. Votes: 0

It is best to meet in a cul-de-sac, A palace of velvet With windows of mirrors. There one is safe, There are no family photographs, No rings through the nose, no cries. Votes: 0

And you asked why people always expected you to smile in photographs. And I told you it was because they hoped that in the future, there would be something to smile about. Votes: 0

The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers, flowers, photographs, and words - without locks, open on my shelves. Votes: 0

The changes are part of my writing process. When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking. Votes: 0

I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them. Votes: 0

During the winter when the weather is too poor to work outside, I do use drawings and photographs, but I change my work so it is not just a time and place study. Votes: 0

I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better in these photographs than in others. (On his self-portraits) Votes: 0

Doubt always hovers nearby, but I take photographs the way a musician hums. Looking is like breathing. So when luck turns my way and offers me a good picture, joy is surely nigh. Votes: 0

I never saw a pyramid, but I've seen photographs; I know what a pyramid or a sphinx looks like. There are pictures that do that, but they satisfy a different kind of interest. Votes: 0

I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium and this is why I have moved towards painting. Votes: 0

For me, photographs take their power from memory and emotion. A picture tells its own story, shaped by the mood or insights of the person you are at the time you see it. Votes: 0

My work has no theme. I don't care if my photographs get published, and I have no interest in the news. But the invasion of Prague was not news, it was my life. Votes: 0

I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing. Votes: 0

I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them. Votes: 0

After art college, I got a job as a medical illustrator, and I was pretty good. I had to imagine what was going on in the operations because the photographs just showed a mess. Votes: 0

I didn't really know how to make a film when I made 'Control'. I had to create my own language, just as I did when I started taking photographs. I never studied either one. Votes: 0

No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay. Votes: 0

Swedes are a really humble and shy people in many ways, but I think it's pretty much the same as in the U.S. Little girls want to take photographs with me at lunch. Votes: 0

Note 4. For these and other reasons the cat is also very hard to photograph. The best photographs are instantaneous, as the mere breathing of a cat will blur the fur in a time exposure. Votes: 0

I should be getting photographs of me with my arm around these people like restaurant owners do, because eventually I am going to have to prove to my kids that once I was an actor! Votes: 0

I wanted to put reality in my photographs. Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. That's what was happening. And I was going to help make it happen. Boy, they did not want that in America. Votes: 0