Photograph Quotes · Page 21

“A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Garry Winogrand

It's been a strange [summer]… I was sent by a magazine to photograph famous photographers… Of course, I included myself.

— Weegee

Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art.

— Sally Mann

“A good photograph never belongs to the past; every time you look at it, it is with you, it is alive and…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no…

— Norman Mailer

Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.

— Robert Frank

For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken.

— Sloane Crosley

The photograph as an objective representation of reality simply does not exist. The photograph does not explain to you what is going…

— Pedro Meyer

...just like some people's instinct to photograph is triggered by vacation... assignments might be that to me and that's why I've built…

— Sam Abell

There is nothing, under present conditions, that can be more easily and exactly reproduced than a technically good black-and-white photograph, and it…

— Clarence John Laughlin

I love the people I photograph. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them…

— Bruce Gilden

I love the Dutch impressionists - Vermeer, Rembrandt. What they were able to do with light was astonishing. As for photographers, I…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

Good photographs aren't just complex. They are enigmatic. Images are beguiling. And the way they play into our psychology, into our visual…

— Stuart Franklin

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I try and photograph people as they are. I do not want to hide anything. I want to bring across a personality,…

— Juergen Teller

He lifted his gaze to the framed photograph of Tanya and him taken on their wedding day. God, she had been lovely.…

— Sandra Brown

The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and…

— Paul Strand

Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the…

— Ralph Gibson

The Winter Photograph was my Ariadne, not because it would help me discover a secret thing (monster or treasure), but because it…

— Roland Barthes

As Churchill said about the Great War, and he said this in about 1924, that it was the first war in which…

— Jacqueline Winspear

The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education…

— Aaron Scharf

I think I'm really fortunate to be an installation artist who is heavily invested in photography: I don't have the emotional problems…

— Sandy Skoglund

I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day.…

— Elton John

Looking at a photograph and wishing you could re-live that moment over and over again.

— Anonymous

I've never liked the word 'celebrity.' I like to photograph people who are good at what they do.

— Annie Leibovitz

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.

— Frank Delaney

A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music.

— Fred Picker

Never pose your subjects. Let them move about naturally... All great photographs today are snapshots.

— Martin Munkacsi

The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not…

— Roland Barthes

Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs!

— Rachel Kushner

There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it’s not a photograph.

— Thomas Ruff

A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I…

— Annie Leibovitz

I love doing commercials! Usually, they have enough money that they can take time and photograph it well.

— James Earl Jones

The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.

— Richard Avedon

The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.

— Dennis Oppenheim

I would drown in objects if I didn't have the ability to photograph them.

— Martin Parr

A photograph is a mirror; mostly it reflects the prejudices of the viewer.

— Bill Jay

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.

— Matt Hardy

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

— Imogen Cunningham