Photograph Quotes

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.

Different people can photograph the same things with the same tools and create such different images.

Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.

As Estelle Jussim wrote, it is almost impossible for a single photograph to state both the problem and the solution.

I find the surface of a photograph a thing of beauty in and of itself, and it is this surface that makes a photograph unique relative to other two-dimensional media.

In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.

Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings.

Sometimes I photograph without looking through the viewfinder. I have mastered that well enough, it is almost as if I were looking through it.

Fiction is an expressionist painting rather than a photograph.

The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me.

How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!

There's this way that photography is always about going out searching. I'm not the kind of a photographer who can photograph my home.

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

If they want a photograph, then just take it.

I like to capture moments. It's like a photograph. Ten years from now you look at the photograph and you don't remember it but rather the whole week or month around the photo.

I hate red carpet photographs!

A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see

Photography is one big scrapbook of your life.

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.

I am a postmodern romantic. I try to use their way to photograph, and at the same time, incorporate the problems that I feel in a country like Guatemala.

I paint when I cannot photograph.

l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.

The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.

I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses.

Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.

At a certain point, the soul exits from a cherished photograph, because we have come to the end of our loving projection into that moment.

I always wanted to photograph the universal subjects.

Im just interested in what makes a photograph.

Sometimes I work on film sets. I've done this for 40 years. I always wanted to photograph on the set of an Ingmar Bergman film. Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity.

You can carry a photograph with you on a thumb drive, and you can make it bigger or smaller - it's a very malleable form of mass production.

Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little.

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.

Life is a photograph too, so thank you,for not removing yourself from the picture just yet.

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

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

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

I have to deal with being famous. Sometimes I have to tell people I don't do autographs, thank you very much. At certain places, I refuse to have my photograph taken.

The best photographs are made by the best people.

A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph them or repaint them, so they've already been talked about, already been consumed.

I have a photograph of my grandfather driving a donkey cart barefoot.

Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.

To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs that cold be taken of the world: It offers the reader a frame.

I photograph different people all the time. I like to shoot all kinds of people.

I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.

When I photograph someone, I want to shoot the subject and get them out of my studio so I can play with the photos and do all the stuff I want.

Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships.

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.

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

I love to photograph the tools of one's trade: Duncan Grant's paintbrushes, the typewriter of Herman Hesse, or even my own guitar, a 1957 Fender Duo-Sonic.

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