Photograph Quotes

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

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.

I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now.

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

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

A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music.

If I could find them (assemblages) in nature I would photograph them. I make them because through photography I have a knowledge of things that can't be found.

I photograph Nature, which includes human beings.

Let's put it this way - I photograph what interests me all the time. I live with the pictures to see what that thing looks like photographed. I'm saying the same thing; I'm not changing it.

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

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

I have to photograph where I am.

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

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

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.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. But you do, from your experience, surmise something. You do give a photograph symbolic content, narrative content... But it's nothing to worry about!

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

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.

For me anyway when a photograph is interesting, it's interesting because of the kind of photographic problem it states - which has to do with the contest between content and form.

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

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

You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what you're hired for.

It's never as good the second time. Things don't get better. You can't always go back, a lot of it has been erased. The photograph is a record of it having existed.

The thing itself photographed becomes less interesting when you go back to it years later but I think the photograph becomes more important later when the reality has passed.

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

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

The photograph is always more interesting than what the photograph is of.

Mostly the subject of the photograph, which can be anyone really, coming down the street - someone that has no idea. "Heroism" in photography, just like in a novel, is for everyone.

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

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

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

Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these photographs did.

The camera photographs what's there.

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

I do believe in angels and I believe that a lot of these people I'm supposed to meet. The photograph serves as evidence; it causes me to reflect on when I met this person.

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

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

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

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

You think you photograph a particular scene for the pleasure it gives. In fact it's the scene that wants to be photographed. You're merely an extra in the production.

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.

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

A photograph for me does not have a sense of spiritual seduction, it does not have an essence, that this is something that permeates and which is eternal through time.

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

Everybody feels like they need a photograph because we're in a generation where, if you don't document it, it didn't occur. So you've got to stop and take a picture with everybody.

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

I know the families that I photograph extremely well and have known them for a very long time.

The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very very collaborative.

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

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.