Photograph Quotes

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

There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.

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

Any photographed human being is always a photograph.

I try to photograph thoughts.

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

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

To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes to become the photograph.

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.

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

I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence... images taken in the empty rooms, the marks left on the walls, disappearing shadows, etc.

I photograph [people] as if photographing flowers.

[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.

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

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

There is a great difference between shooting a photograph and making a photograph.

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

Our editors, I'm afraid, have come to believe that the photograph is an end in itself. They've forgotten that the photograph is only the subsidiary, the little brother, of the word.

I fall in love with almost every person I photograph. I want to hear their stories. I want to get close. This is personal for me.

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

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

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

The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in favour of an imagined plenitude.

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?

What a photograph shows us is how a particular thing could be seen, or could be made to look - at a specific moment, in a specific context, by a specific photographer employing specific tools.

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

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

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

I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.

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.

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

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.

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

Content to me is very important, but I like it when [the photograph] is also enigmatic. If you don't know what it is you begin to speculate, and that is what I want.

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

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

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

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.

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

When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I value in you is that intensity. I want to make portraits as intense as people.

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

To collect photographs is to collect the world.

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

There is no photograph more inherently photographic than another.

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

Don't become a random photograph in the eyes of friends, and even your enemies, for each glance at your face will cause a declination of value and reputation. Create value, through scarcity.

I don't even know where mine [Oscar award] is. My mother has hidden it because everybody who comes in wants to take a photograph of it. So what she's done is she put it inside a suitcase somewhere.

What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and enlarge it and enlarge it until it became like a landscape.

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

You can't photograph everything.