Photograph Quotes · Page 16

The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.

— Henry Adams

I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations…

— Saul Leiter

[When I photograph] I project what I'm not. What I would like to be.

— Lillian Bassman

The Carrie Mae Weems photograph 'Blue Black Boy,' I thought, was fantastic.

— Glenn Ligon

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

— Janet Malcolm

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. Ansel Adams

— Ansel Adams

I don't own photograph albums - the pictures that are important to me are etched in my mind.

— Roy Hodgson

I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.

— Eric Cantona

The heavy odds against finding the desired... work of art in the mess and flux of life, as opposed to the serene…

— Janet Malcolm

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

To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the…

— Michael Snow

To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like…

— Susan Sontag

One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a…

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

You have to bring to the photograph a prejudice about something, and I'm prejudiced against farmers who tie dead animals on fences.…

— Rondal Partridge

There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any…

— Taryn Simon

It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn…

— Diane Arbus

Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams,…

— Jim Jarmusch

The inferiority of photographs to the best works of artists, so far as resemblance is concerned, lies in their catching no more…

— Francis Galton

I saw a man walk into my camera viewfinder from the left. He took a pistol out of his holster and raised…

— Eddie Adams

I often find myself worrying about celebrities. It's an entirely caring thing; it's not like the people who commission those photographs with…

— Peter York

His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] has told me, urgently and repeatedly, that he thinks my photographs are crap. His exact words were,…

— Richard Gere

Well, we now have such a photograph... Has any new idea been let loose? It certainly has. You will have noticed how…

— Fred Hoyle

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope…

— Galen Rowell

How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work…

— Aaron Scharf

Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph.

— Patti Smith

Of course, all my work is photographed and I also take quite a lot of photographs of work in production.

— Patricia Piccinini

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is…

— Toni Morrison

Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.

— Walter Benjamin

Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano.

— Nicholas Haslam

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person,

— Saul Leiter

Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real.

— Susan Sontag

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

— Man Ray

I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone.

— Saoirse Ronan

It's not enough that [the photograph] is beautiful. If it doesn't move my heart, it won't move anyone else's heart.

— Rinko Kawauchi

Certainly, people feel awkward when they have their photograph taken. They want to see it, but they don't want to see it.

— Nigel Barker

Now I'm gone in your photograph I bet you wish you could get me back. Now I'm stuck in your memory a…

— Fefe Dobson

“A photograph is a click away. A good photograph is a hundred clicks away and a better one, a thousand clicks away”

— Kowtham Kumar K

Life is a photograph too, so thank you,for not removing yourself from the picture just yet.

— Meggie Royer

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.

— Edward Weston

I want my photographs not only to be real but to portray the essence of my subjects also. In order to do…

— Mary Ellen Mark