Photograph Quotes · Page 22

I look at a photograph. What's going on? What's happening, photographically? If it's interesting, I try to understand why.

— Garry Winogrand

When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.

— Roland Barthes

A lot of my hair and makeup, and everything I pull for inspiration, is [drawn] from old photographs.

— Emmy Rossum

There are times that I have to say no to a photograph, like at 8:30 A.M. when I'm out to buy bread…

— Jamie-Lee O'Donnell

That's who comes to my workshops. I jokingly tell my students that the class could be called "Your photographs: Better."

— Sam Abell

I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.

— David LaChapelle

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

— Marshall McLuhan

What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment thats gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Even the uncaptioned art photograph is invaded by language in the very moment it is looked at: in memory, in association, snatches…

— Victor Burgin

As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence... images taken in the empty rooms, the marks…

— Mona Kuhn

If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all…

— Allan Nevins

Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home,…

— Marcel Proust

This is how you can tell a real photographer: mostly, a real photographer does not say 'I wish I had my camera…

— Neil Gaiman

In some way, a photo is like a stolen kiss. In fact a kiss is always stolen, even if the woman is…

— Edouard Boubat

There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my…

— John Sexton

I would love to photograph Angelina Jolie. A friend of mine is working with her on her next film and told me…

— Peter Lindbergh

I had seen faces in photographs I might have found beautiful had I known even vaguely in what beauty was supposed to…

— Samuel Beckett

The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the…

— Walker Evans

In some ways, I feel like the strength of animation is in its simplicity and caricature, and in reduction. It's like an…

— Pete Docter

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

Trying to analyze a situation without enough data was like looking at a photograph of a ball in flight and trying to…

— Marcus Sakey

There's this one photograph of guy I know named Simon. The way he's standing, the background, the way his tie's flipping in…

— Scott Schuman

I had to leave some traces. In the beginning, I would give complete instructions to the photographer. In the '70s, people would…

— Marina Abramovic

The trouble with flowers is that invariably, when I'm ready to photograph them, they are not in season.

— Anne Geddes

The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.

— Eliot Porter

I am too old to know how to put a naked photograph of myself on the Internet.

— Rachel Maddow

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know…

— Annie Leibovitz

Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.

— Garry Winogrand

A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.

— Edward Steichen

The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.

— D. H. Lawrence

“A photograph is a frozen moment, but a great photographer captures the soul of that moment.”

— Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer

Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.

— Mark Carwardine

Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories.

— Sally Mann

Different people can photograph the same things with the same tools and create such different images.

— John Paul Caponigro

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

— Bill Jay

Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.

— Mary Ellen Mark

We are judged, not by the photographs we take, but by the photographs we show.

— Ted Grant

It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think…

— Annie Leibovitz