Photographs Quotes · Page 6

There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any…

— Jock Sturges

I can recall photographs of Comrade Ulbricht being embraced by Comrade Brezhnev, which must have been like putting your arms around Grant's…

— Richard Elman

Some guys can run fast, some guys can sing, I found I could take photographs that people were interested in.

— David Douglas Duncan

Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind…

— Alison Jackson

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

— Sally Mann

I left Facebook after Facebook groups began appearing about me and suddenly your personal photographs start becoming public property.

— Freddie Stroma

My photographs are not just about the instant of movement you capture in the camera. It's much more total, about constant movement…

— Gabriel Orozco

In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of…

— W. G. Sebald

“LaMont, the truth is that the world is incredibly, incredibly, unbelievably old. You suffer with the stunted desire caused by one of…

— David Foster Wallace

Many people keep photos in their homes, in their office, or in their wallet, and happy families tend to display large numbers…

— Gretchen Rubin

“Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I'd like the photographs to potentially be meaningful to a wide range of people. They do not grow out of the reportage…

— Torbjørn Rødland

I do not like bad photographs. I don't like to be badly lit. There is a fashion, particularly on stage, for very…

— Joanna Lumley

I want to take some quite incredible photographs that have never been taken before... pictures which are simple and complex at the…

— Alexander Rodchenko

Because it flew without a pilot, the D-21 was designed to fly over territory where the U.S. was denied access and to…

— Annie Jacobsen

Photographs are interpretations of reality; as such, it is entirely subjective. Most photos are taken with an agenda, to sell something or…

— Martin Parr

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.

— Louis de Bernieres

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

— Ray Metzker

The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out…

— Irving Penn

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of…

— Robert Frank

Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject.

— Victor Skrebneski

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

— Barbara Cook

“A good photograph never belongs to the past; every time you look at it, it is with you, it is alive and…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I collect rare photographs... I have two... One of Houdini locking his keys in his car... the other is a rare picture…

— Steven Wright

I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no…

— Norman Mailer

“My family lost most of our old photos. And now? We scan the backgrounds of photos belonging to others just to catch…

— Damon Thomas

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

— Francis Bacon

Bernard Vonnegut, named for his paternal grandfather, was born August 29, 1914. He was a serious-looking little boy, even in informal photographs.

— Charles J. Shields

I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.

— Alfred Stieglitz

In the end, I believe that the most important influence on my aesthetic has been the photographs I have taken.

— Roger Ballen

The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.

— Richard Avedon

If there is any jarring at all in my photographs, it's because we are so used to ingesting pictures of everywhere looking…

— Martin Parr

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

— Rachel Kushner

What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment thats gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs.

— Claire Tomalin

“Whenever we look at a photograph, the memories in the photograph become our memories as well!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories.

— Sally Mann

You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.

— Garry Winogrand

Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to…

— Eliot Porter