Photograph Quotes · Page 22

Perhaps most intriguing of all is that it is possible to photograph what is impossible for the human eye to see -…

— Michael Kenna

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

— Fred Picker

If you want to be a photographer, you have to photograph

— Steve McCurry

A photograph to me is always a reminder of how the person was on a certain day in that certain light fixed.…

— Francesco Clemente

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because…

— Brigitte Bardot

The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a…

— Walter Benjamin

In assembling this group of portraits of women, I'm aware that I'm treading on dangerous ground. When I was in college, I…

— Alec Soth

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

— Thomas Demand

I fall in love with almost every person I photograph. I want to hear their stories. I want to get close. This…

— Stephanie Sinclair

All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world.…

— Geoffrey Batchen

In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a…

— Graciela Iturbide

I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your…

— Frans Lanting

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

I think the fact that you have long - term relationships, this is a very unusual thing in the world, and I…

— Anton Corbijn

I don't really remember the day when I stood behind my camera with Henry Kissinger on the other side. I am sure…

— Richard Avedon

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 look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

— Barbara Cook

Composition in photography is almost as varied as composition in music or words -- melodic or atonal, safe or daring -- and…

— Michael Langford

We do not make photographs with our cameras. We make them with our minds, with our hearts, with our ideas.

— Arnold Newman

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

— Ambrose Bierce

Memoir isn't the summary of a life; it's a window into a life, very much like a photograph in its selective composition.…

— William Zinsser

Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you…

— Sara Sheridan

I try to photograph thoughts.

— Mario Giacomelli

You can't photograph if you're not in love.

— W. Eugene Smith

I probably get a deeper satisfaction of having taken a very good photograph than of having written something very good, a very…

— Teju Cole