Photograph Quotes · Page 23

Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange…

— Joel Sternfeld

Time past cannot be stopped, saved, or regained. But a photograph allows you to borrow it.

— Douglas McCulloh

“Whenever we look at a photograph, the memories in the photograph become our memories as well!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is.

— Thierry Mugler

I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.

— Carrie Mae Weems

Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, "Gee, I'm glad I have that…

— John Loengard

I feel all things as dynamic events, being, changing, and interacting with each other in space and time even as I photograph…

— Wynn Bullock

The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.

— Allan Sekula

Photographers - idiots, of which there are so many - say, "Oh, if only I had a Nikon or a Leica, I…

— Andreas Feininger

When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!

— Ted Grant

Still photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world. Words and pictures have a continuing struggle for primacy. In my mind,…

— Eddie Adams

The notion that Playboy exploited women, because we showed them in beautiful photographs, sexually oriented, strikes me as rather bizarre.

— Hugh Hefner

For a photographer, it's a necessity that you can shoot stuff magically. Accidents are necessary, but after I take the photograph, it's…

— Rinko Kawauchi

As [John Heartfield] was playing with the fire of appearance, reality took fire around him... The scraps of photographs that he formerly…

— Louis Aragon

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt…

— Matt Damon

Every year, the memories I have of my father become more faint, unclear, and distant. once they were vivid and true, then…

— Nicole Krauss

I started to concentrate more upon how the viewer looks at photographs... I would insert my own text or my own specific…

— Lorna Simpson

One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the…

— John Szarkowski

My pictures are complex and so am I. When I am almost symbolistic in writing, there is a more limiting difference’s of…

— W. Eugene Smith

Black and white is a very minimalist art form and unlike color photographs does not pretend to mimic the world in a…

— Roger Ballen

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The public is being spoiled by good technical quality photographs in magazines, on television, in the movies, and they have become bored.…

— Alexey Brodovitch

Americans don't like to waste time on stupid things, for example, on the torturous process of coming up with names for their…

— Ilya Ilf

Different levels of photography require different levels of understanding and skill. A "press the button, let George do the rest" photographer needs…

— Minor White

The viewer is yet another eye that is part of the compact that makes a photograph what it is.

— Alex Webb

“A photograph of poverty is not a photograph but it is a knife that sticks into the hearts of everyman who looks…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Fashion has also been a great outlet, and I'd like to do more fashion photography in the future. I also photograph a…

— Steven Sebring

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I have never taken a photograph without one thought in my head to amuse myself.

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience.

— Shomei Tomatsu

The subject gives you the best idea of how to make a photograph. So I just wait for something to happen.

— Mary Ellen Mark

I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.

— Alvin Langdon Coburn

A good nude photograph can be erotic, but certainly not sentimental or pornographic.

— Bill Brandt

If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.

— Ansel Adams

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

— Ansel Adams

“When I make a photograph I feel that I hold a piece of the universe in my hands.”

— Paul Chaplo

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

— Michael Kenna

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.

— Louis de Bernieres

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

— Catherine Opie

I never really made any money and it certainly cost me more to take photographs than I got for them.

— Dennis Hopper