Photograph Quotes · Page 16

If you photograph for a long time, you get to understand such things as body language. I often do not look at…

— Martin Parr

I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries... What started…

— David McCullough

I want my photographs to say: "Look-there's this thing you haven't seen that you should see."

— Emmet Gowin

I love the idea of engaging the object, whether it be architecture or a piece of good graphic design, or a good…

— Michael C. McMillen

I want to take some quite incredible photographs that have never been taken before... pictures which are simple and complex at the…

— Alexander Rodchenko

My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.

— Mario Testino

I have all my contact sheets filed, from the first photograph I took to the present day.

— Mary McCartney

In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson,…

— Burton Silverman

I work in several different groups of pictures which act on and with each other - ranging from several abstracted manners to…

— Ralph Eugene Meatyard

Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it…

— Clement Greenberg

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out…

— Irving Penn

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.

— Louis de Bernieres

We'd make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me. (On modeling for Alfred Stieglitz)

— Georgia O'Keeffe

There must be a certain look of availability in the women I photograph. I think the woman who gives the appearance of…

— Helmut Newton

About shadows: do we see shadows? Loads of people don't. A camera will notice a shadow, but how many people have got…

— David Hockney

There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any…

— Jock Sturges

It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to…

— Kate Morton

I am trying to capture the women I photograph at their happiest. That is when they look their most beautiful. But I…

— Mario Testino

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

— Aaron Scharf

So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the…

— Sebastiao Salgado

Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of…

— Robert Heinecken

A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression.

— Martine Franck

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

— Yousuf Karsh

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

— Michael Shermer

They [photographs] teach you about your own unraveling past, or about the immediacy of yesterday. They show you what you look at.…

— Joel Meyerowitz