Photograph Quotes

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

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

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

Facts cling to photographs like dust.

The thing about photography is, some people surround themselves with extremely strong subject matter. And unless you're a moron, you're going to get a really strong photograph.

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

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

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.

...a photographer must be aware of and concerned about the words that accompany a picture. These words should be considered as carefully as the lighting, exposure and composition of the photograph.

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

Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world - good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.

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

I think things are going to go right for me again. I'm not old. I'm old enough, but I photograph young, thank God, and I still have a public. I still get fan mail.

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

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

Why do photographers photograph? To make unreality visible.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I don't photograph anyone if I can't meet with them first because if I don't do that, then they're just going to the dentist and they're filled with fear. They don't know who I am.

I think that people get into trouble when they photograph something that they... that is not in their world. It's like when they say "write what you know."

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

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.

We share a huge visual memory bank, mostly through painting and other images in history. I think when a modern photograph taps into those, sometimes very subliminally, it makes people respond.

It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and all of a sudden I see things in it I'd never seen before.

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

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

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.

I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and wait for the light.

Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.

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

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

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.

I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.

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

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

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

Taking the photograph is the easiest part for me

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

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

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

To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.

Yes, there's a certain power to a photograph. The camera has a way of disorienting a person, if it wants to and, for me, when it disorients, it's got real value.

Every photograph is a fake from start to finish.

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

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

Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.