Photographs Quotes · Page 8

Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something…

— Emmet Gowin

“I savor [my photographs] with the slightly sad joy of reflecting that all this good time is past.”

— Henri Evenepoel

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this…

— Marla Maples

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

— Kate Morton

I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it's something fantastic. They're willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they…

— Cindy Sherman

I've exhibited quite a few of my photographs. I expand them digitally till they're very big. It's an art school thing, I…

— Donovan

I don't use photographs because photographs don't give me the kind of information I need.

— Alex Colville

To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye.

— Minor White

When I am preparing my 'lookalike' photographs, I think about the character of the real people, because, if the photographs are going…

— Alison Jackson

I love sharing photographs and websites, I'm for all of these things. I'm for Facebook. But to say that this is sociability?…

— Sherry Turkle

[Me book is] called Stock Photographs. It was done at the Fort Worth livestock show and rodeo. I was commissioned to shoot…

— Garry Winogrand

I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people…

— Errol Morris

Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years…

— Ben Shahn

The Heart Gallery premise is very simple. It is a special traveling exhibit of photographs featuring Los Angeles foster youth, designed to…

— Angela Featherstone

The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs…

— Jerry Saltz

Larry Schwarm's photographs of fire on the prairie are so compelling that I cannot imagine any later photographer trying to do better.…

— Robert Adams

Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.

— Robert Adams

“Photographs is not the same as just name, is more living. Otherwise, why save photographs? (Marijana to Mr Rayment)”

— J.M. Coetzee

Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something…

— Lee Friedlander

I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.

— Jerry Uelsmann

“When I flick through a family album, I see that people don’t die, they just become photographs”

— S.E. SEVER

The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.

— John Szarkowski

My wife made me a book of photographs she took of our road trip across the United States. Makes for a good…

— Paul Wesley

I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking…

— Orlando Bloom

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

— Ruth Bernhard

“I used to capture the vastness and the immensity of the world and confine it to the limited pages of the parchment.”

— Hark Herald Sarmiento

... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest.

— Lee Friedlander

I know that if I were to take ugly photographs, no one would be interested in looking at them.

— Chris Jordan

“Only lost photographs that were never taken know what my mind speaks of when we are alone together.”

— Daniel J. Rice

I believe you can use photographs to meditate on and work through things in your life.

— Todd Hido

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

— Jack Welpott

The documentation about the work isn't of real importance to me either. I've done lots of works without taking photographs.

— Jan Dibbets

I know plenty of people who do, who get their holidays paid for and in return have their photographs taken on the…

— Max Beesley

I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories.

— Stephen Chbosky

Because I was traveling a lot during the '70s, the only thing I could do on the road was take photographs, so…

— Sigmar Polke

“I don’t have many photographs of myself – a trait common to most professional photographers”

— William Boyd

The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth.

— Leroy Chiao

There are many photographs which are full of life but which are confusing and difficult to remember. It is the force of…

— Brassai

When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet…

— Lisa Kristine

I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.

— William Eggleston