Photograph Quotes

Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph.

After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have to take a picture and later a poem comes in my mind.

Words are a completely different form of expression. The word P-E-N-I-S is an entirely different form of communication than a photograph of the same thing. H

Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you

I don't care how you photograph - use the kitchen mop if you must, but if the product is not true to the laws of photography... you have produced something that is dead. (1923)

There are certain restaurants where you should photograph the food rather than eat it. These are great places to bring a narcissistic boyfriend before you break up.

One of the problems with technology is that no photograph, as superb and outstanding as it may be, will ever be as satisfying as the most middle-rate painting.

You see in the photograph what you are.

The nineteenth-century way of looking at the photograph was as a mirror for the memory, and at that time the photographs almost looked like mirrors, with their polished metallic surfaces.

A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.

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

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

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

In Majorca, I can be myself. I go to the supermarket and the cinema, and I am just Rafa. Everyone knows me, and it is no big deal. I can go all day - no photographs.

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

I hate being the subject of photographs.

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.

Some of my enthusiasm for the [found] photograph was based on the fact that there was some residual illusion of reality in it always, no matter what I did to it.

I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention.

Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.

When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.

You have to bring to the photograph a prejudice about something, and I'm prejudiced against farmers who tie dead animals on fences. Therefore, I can make a meaningful photograph.

Often I have struggled for days to get the image of the photograph to overlap the spirit I see. It is an awesome responsibility, and a lonely one.

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.

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.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second, or one sixteenth, or one one-hundred-and-twenty-eighth. Snap your fingers; a snapshot's faster.

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

A very big part of the life of a photograph is the afterlife.

My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.

Richard Prince's most famous photograph was made by me.

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.

You photograph with all your ideology.

There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite naturally and fully.

A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts.

I don't even know what an 'It' girl is. As far as I'm concerned, an 'It' girl is somebody who doesn't do anything except go to parties and get her photograph taken.

For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken.

I don't know how much a photograph can add to a biography, the way a film or writing or narrative medium could. Because it's a frozen image.

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.

The other week I wrote a piece on a photograph I got at a flea market, and I got about 70 hits. I think a lot of people must be interested in flea markets.

Fashion has also been a great outlet, and I'd like to do more fashion photography in the future. I also photograph a lot of artists.

Good photographs aren't just complex. They are enigmatic. Images are beguiling. And the way they play into our psychology, into our visual cortex, is something we still don't understand.

We sort of understand how painkillers work. You take one, and it reduces your headache. We don't understand how photographs work. And that, to me, is an essential problem as a practitioner.

It's certainly important to include text beside documentary photographs. Furthermore, it's important to include text in a way that's useful and accessible.

There are cultures that believe having your photograph taken steals your soul. I don't think there is a stolen soul in a picture, but still - why is it so hard to throw them away?

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.

Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.

The photographer's intentions do not determine the meaning of a photograph, which will have its own career, blown by the whims and loyalties of the diverse communities that have use for it.

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

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

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