Photograph Quotes · Page 14

Merging photographs can be more real than the isolated image because reality is so much more rich than just an isolated moment.

— Pedro Meyer

“There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer”

— Ansel Adams

My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.

— Bill Jay

My wife sent her photograph to the lonely hearts club. They sent it back, said they weren't that lonely.

— Les Dawson

My chief joy is to photograph the great in heart, in mind, and in spirit, whether they be famous or humble.

— Yousuf Karsh

If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as…

— Bill Jay

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

— Margaret Bourke-White

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

— Susan Sontag

I find the surface of a photograph a thing of beauty in and of itself, and it is this surface that makes…

— John Sexton

One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa,…

— Diane Arbus

I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of…

— Anonymous

One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was…

— John Sexton

What's important to me is that [photographs] have the appearance of being documents of what goes on. I like the illusion of…

— Larry Sultan

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

— Brassai

I always wanted to make an abstract photograph. I would photograph walls, sports interiors, marks on the walls people made. Even looking…

— Idris Khan

When I photograph, I try to use my instincts as much as possible. It is when pictures are unconsidered and irrational that…

— Jacob Aue Sobol

I came across a photograph of him not long ago... his black face, the long snout sniffing at something in the air,…

— Willie Morris

As time went by we developed a sort of ideology without ever formulating it as such. I've always said that we are…

— Bernd Becher

In 1978 I decided not to work with Man Ray as an act of self-discipline. I didn't want to rely on him.…

— William Wegman

“I liked watching them, all three of them around my truck. I wanted time to stop because everything seemed so simple, Dante…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

The only thing which completely was an amazement to me and brought me to photography was the work of Munkacsi. When I…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Unlike the marks of a painting, the photo seems to organize its 'opinions' in relation to the world; even when the photographs…

— Joseph Kosuth

Even more ominous ... is the fact that since the Second World War a new kind of intellectual has emerged in large…

— John Fowles

For me, what was important was to record everything I saw around me, and to do this as methodically as possible. In…

— Alfredo Jaar

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

— John Szarkowski

“Judging by the photograph it seemed like I hadn’t been there at all. As if it was my camera that had been…

— Ida Løkås

You'll reach into your wallet to brandish a photograph of a new puppy, and a friend will say, 'Oh, no - not…

— Caroline Knapp

What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.

— William Klein

I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.

— Martin Parr

... nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of…

— Walker Evans

The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.

— Anonymous

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

— Susan Sontag

I never take photographs myself. I don’t feel like a photographer, more like a recycler

— Christian Boltanski

It's not that I don't care about content, but content is not the only way a photograph has meaning.

— James Welling

The cartoon absolutely captures something that acres and acres of copy can't. And even photographs can't.

— Julia Gillard

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

— Chuck Close

If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

— Garry Winogrand

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

— Brigitte Bardot

It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.

— Marshall McLuhan

I'm in love with the markets of the world. It's a photograph of a city, a culture.

— Alain Ducasse