Photograph Quotes · Page 2

Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode…

— Ralph Gibson

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

— Dorothea Lange

While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity.…

— Dawoud Bey

My photographs are not just about the instant of movement you capture in the camera. It's much more total, about constant movement…

— Gabriel Orozco

When it comes to the street-art world, there are a lot of people who realize if they go out and put up…

— Shepard Fairey

Making a definitive declaration of intent or meaning kills the photograph.

— Daido Moriyama

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot.…

— Eve Arnold

It (taking photographs) is all about longingwithout longing-no pictures at all.

— Anders Petersen

Computer images, like camera images today, will be seen as representations of a simulated, second-degree reality with little or no connection to…

— Andy Grundberg

I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention.

— Robert Rauschenberg

The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic)…

— Roland Barthes

The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with…

— Alfred Stieglitz

Like, if you look at Heidi Montag, who got 10 surgeries she didn't need, I think that's unfortunate. I've always been voluptuous…

— Holly Madison

I have looked at so many photographs, I can not see them anymore.

— Michael Heizer

There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.

— Garry Winogrand

Would you want people walking up to you and pointing at your d--k? I can't believe I'm still talking about this. But…

— Jon Hamm

I appreciate photographs which celebrate harmony. I don't particularly want to look at chaos. I see enough of that at home.

— Bill Jay

There are plenty of beautiful girls who don't photograph well.

— Lauren Hutton

Somebody was saying to Picasso that he ought to make pictures of things the way they are-objective pictures. He mumbled that he…

— Gregory Bateson

I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.

— William Eggleston

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

— David Hockney

I have been a photographer all my life....and have made photographs of many things and for many reasons. But one thing that…

— Ralph Gibson

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

— Susan Sontag

Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.

— Robert Adams

“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