Photograph Quotes · Page 13

Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations.

— Catherine Opie

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I…

— Richard Avedon

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.

— David Bailey

It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.

— Robert Breault

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

— Jerry Uelsmann

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

— Quentin Crisp

A piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as 'material' as a ton of lead.

— Lucy R. Lippard

Emailing a meaningful photograph to someone who is not expecting it can change a relationship forever.

— Nick Kelsh

We do not see everything in the environment in the complete, totally resolved, explicit character of the photograph. We, in fact, prioritize…

— Burton Silverman

An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more…

— Dieter Roth

I think if you do a lot of interviews, you're laying yourself open. If you put yourself out, accept every invitation to…

— Keeley Hawes

It seemed clear to me early on that one of the things a photograph could do was make a reality, and I…

— Justine Kurland

I find it painful when I'm without anything. But I work in multiple fields. If I can't write, I find myself taking…

— Patti Smith

Take a holiday family photograph each year in the same spot, such as by a favorite tree in your yard. In years…

— Anonymous

“This is the hardest stuff in the world to photograph. You need a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree lens, or something. You see it, and then…

— Robert M. Pirsig

I began to realize that photographs, these still images, have a tremendous power to move your soul. They can change your life…

— Graham Nash

I've been doing photography in one form or another for, oh golly, over seventy years. I don't carry cameras. I used to.…

— Leonard Nimoy

If you are walking down the street, camera in your hand, loaded and ready to shoot. You see a person falling from…

— Leonard Nimoy

It's like he would take a photograph of Sam, and the photograph would be beautiful. And he would think that the reason…

— Stephen Chbosky

Properly speaking, global thinking is not possible... Look at one of those photographs of half the earth taken from outer space, and…

— Wendell Berry

I'm deeply interested in the photograph as a record of an encounter and enjoy putting myself in a timeline of image-makers, alongside…

— Susan Meiselas

The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse)…

— Roland Barthes

Dr. Maggie DiNome was given the Duke Award for her tireless efforts and stellar contributions to the eradication of cancer. But unfortunately…

— Pink

... I'm sort of a nervous person with the camera, so I will just shoot arbitrarily until I can focus and compose…

— Dennis Hopper

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

— Robert Adams

There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment.

— Jeanloup Sieff

I fall in love with almost every person I photograph. I want to hear their stories. I want to get close. This…

— Stephanie Sinclair

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

— Alex Colville

There is a great difference between shooting a photograph and making a photograph.

— Robert Heinecken

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

— Minor White

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

— Garry Winogrand

How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?

— Martha Rosler

Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.

— David Amram

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

— Peter Schjeldahl

I never look for a photograph. The photograph finds me and says, I'm here! and I say, Yes, I see you. I…

— Ruth Bernhard

Making a definitive declaration of intent or meaning kills the photograph.

— Daido Moriyama

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

— Franz Kafka

I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.

— Dawoud Bey

I realize that as I get more experience as I get older, my perception changes and that feeds the photograph.

— Stephen Shore

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

— Jules Renard