Photograph Quotes · Page 18

I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.

— David Hockney

A photograph can look anyway. It just depends basically on what you photograph.

— Garry Winogrand

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

— Mary McCartney

The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.

— Helmut Newton

There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.

— Julie Harris

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

— Ansel Adams

Sometimes you feel uncomfortable taking a photograph, but that's all part of the job.

— Martin Parr

Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.

— Paul Emsley

I don't like explosions. I don't mind progress. But digital photography has made every man, woman, child and chimpanzee a photographer of…

— Elliott Erwitt

[With my photographs] you have a [single, forever fixed] moment and my particular angle of vision. My tyrannical condition, as it were,…

— Thomas Demand

A thing is not what you say it is or what you photograph it to be or what you paint it to…

— Wynn Bullock

If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing,…

— Paul Strand

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

— Robert Heinecken

The internet does not adhere to the inherent, necessary asymmetry of high-versus-low-art categorizations that we use in the cultural sector: in a…

— Charlotte Cotton

The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does…

— Victor Burgin

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is…

— Robert Frank

There's something arbitrary about taking a picture. So I can stand at the edge of a highway and take one step forward…

— Stephen Shore

I started out, in the mid-'70s, taking photographs of rock bands that I liked but not because I really wanted to photograph…

— Derek Ridgers

The older I get, the one thing I can trust in myself more than anything else is the way I feel about…

— Judy Dater

“Perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes.…

— Arundhati Roy

I photograph in public and semi-public spaces that date from various epochs. These are spaces accessible to everyone. They are places where…

— Candida Hofer

The invention of photography provided a radically new picture-making process - a process based not on synthesis but on selection. The difference…

— John Szarkowski

I didn't do well in high school, but I took photography, and I loved being able to capture moments. It led to…

— Steven Sebring

With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The…

— David Hockney

Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.

— Stephen King

Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods.

— David Sylvester

I'm not really a guy who looks back or has regrets. In my house there's only one photograph of me from my…

— Tim Henman

The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

— Weegee

I wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography.

— Jean-Marc Bustamante

Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these photographs did.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

— Susan Sontag

Unless it hurts, unless there’s some vulnerability there, I don’t think you’re going to get good photographs.

— Martin Parr

I want my photos to be fresh and urgent. A good photograph should be a call to arms.

— Terry Richardson

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

— Irving Penn

The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.

— Sienna Miller

Sometimes you remember your life in photographs that were never taken.

— Jackie Kay

I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in…

— Garry Winogrand

All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Work harder, get closer and be passionate about what you photograph.

— Martin Parr

The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.

— Dirk Bogarde