Photograph Quotes · Page 15

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.

— Ansel Adams

I always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my…

— Robert Barry

Any child who has lost a parent probably knows every single photograph in existence of that parent.

— Aisling Bea

People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment... when one thing changes into something else.

— Andre Kertesz

Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

— Joel Sternfeld

I don't regret the numerous pictures of Brigitte Bardot, but I'd rather have a good photograph of my father.

— Raymond Depardon

I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.

— Thomas Ruff

I was obsessed from the moment I took my first photograph. I wanted to make photography my career.

— Giles Duley

The photograph is an undeniably powerful medium. Free from the constraints of language, and harnessing the unique qualities of a single moment…

— Steve McCurry

Take a random selection of photographs of America in 2012 and 2002 and 1992 and, except for the skinny jeans and the…

— Graydon Carter

...the worry over media manipulation of photographs pales beside the threat that we will be exposed to an unedited, unvetted picture world…

— Andy Grundberg

I see things going on before my eyes and I photograph them as they are, without trying to change them. I don't…

— Martin Parr

This stupid celebrity thing is just a consequence of being good at what you do. I mean, no one would photograph David…

— Nick Moran

A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming through a stained glass window…

— Michael Shermer

When I first started learning how to take photographs, you had to spend the first six months figuring out what an f-stop…

— Martin Parr

I never, never photograph someone getting high to sell clothes. I was called, at some point, the person responsible for "heroin chic".…

— Nan Goldin

Forbes magazine has named Mel Gibson this year's most powerful celebrity. ... Forbes' least powerful celebrity? [Miller displayed the widely circulated image…

— Dennis Miller

To us, the difference between the # photographer as an individual eye and the photographer as an objective recorder seems fundamental, the…

— Susan Sontag

...candid still photography had taken over... What was interesting was that the photographs came without any intention of instructing you... You're like…

— D. A. Pennebaker

While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph…

— Susan Sontag

I think it is quite wrong to photograph, for example, Garbo, if she doesn't want to be photographed. Now I would have…

— Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

I always used to say to my ex-girlfriends that I could never take a good photograph of them, because there was too…

— Rankin

The stories circulating that Kanye West's laptop has been stolen are completely false. His laptop has never been out of his possession.…

— Malik Yusef

One day, quite some time ago, I happened on a photograph of Napoleon’s youngest brother, Jerome, taken in 1852. And I realized…

— Roland Barthes

“What do we feel when we look at a good photograph? We just want to be there, right at the exact moment…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“It was as if my eyes were a camera and I was photographing the moment, knowing that I would keep the photograph…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

— Tallulah Bankhead

Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this.

— Duane Michals

but it's far too late for us; ring, hair, letters, photographs--all traces of our love will be scattered then, like an anagram...

— Anonymous

I photograph what I do not wish to paint, and I paint what I do not wish to photograph

— Man Ray

I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.

— Shirley Knight

“I photograph you every morning In a cruel attempt to capture A formal souvenir of what I love”

— Susan Rich

If you want to learn what someone fears losing,watch what they photograph.

— Anonymous

This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. Then I might have a chance of getting…

— Anne Frank

You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.

— Duane Michals

A photograph is a moment when you press the button. It will never come back.

— Rene Burri

Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It’s like stealing something valuable they don’t even know they own.

— Chuck Palahniuk

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to…

— Edward Weston

I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy.

— Peter Beard

You want to make the photograph work in every way possible. Doesn't matter where it is in the world.

— William Eggleston