Photograph Quotes · Page 24

They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it…

— Jackie Cooper

I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

— Garry Winogrand

I like photographs of anything uninteresting. Maybe just two doors on a wall... The point is to be uninteresting.

— Robert Rauschenberg

There is a word we haven't used yet: virginity... To make a photograph, the plate must be virgin, but your eye as…

— Edouard Boubat

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

— Sally Mann

Before the '80s, no girl would ask to click a photograph. That was modest and demure.

— K. J. Yesudas

Lifes light. Life is light. You can make light do anything you want to. Photography means 'light writing'.

— L. Ron Hubbard

Photography teaches us to see, and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photograph, I make a wish. I…

— George A Tice

I hate nothing more than sugary photographs with tricks, poses and effects. So allow me to be honest ?and tell the truth…

— August Sander

Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something…

— Lee Friedlander

I walk in the park every day, and when people come and ask for a photograph, I say, "Oh, my God!" It…

— Carolina Herrera

People often trust low-res images because they look more real. But of course they are not more real, just easier to fake.…

— Errol Morris

Some of my enthusiasm for the [found] photograph was based on the fact that there was some residual illusion of reality in…

— Robert Heinecken

I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition…

— Ken Burns

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if…

— Daniel Clowes

[Cindy Sherman's] photographs reverse the terms of art and autobiography. They use art not to reveal the artist's true self but to…

— Douglas Crimp

Most of the photographs I make are personal pictures and never end up in print. Even the magazines I shoot for on…

— David Alan Harvey

Given the lack of public skills in reading photographs, given that photographic content is sometimes buried in beauty, contemporary landscape photographers are…

— Lucy R. Lippard

To me it is no mystery that we can only photograph effectively what we are truly interested in or-maybe more importantly-are grappling…

— Todd Hido

Photograph because you love doing it, because you absolutely have to do it, because the chief reward is going to be the…

— Alex Webb

There was a stage in my career when I started to have problems with the vanity aspect of the subject. I got…

— Juergen Teller

Picture yourself during the early 1920's inside the dome of the Mount Wilson Observatory. ... Humason is showing Shapley stars he had…

— Halton Arp

Where were we?" she said. "Getting credit," I said. "What about it?" "Well, it's nice to get credit." The spokes of her…

— Jerry Spinelli

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

— Minor White

Some guys can run fast, some guys can sing, I found I could take photographs that people were interested in.

— David Douglas Duncan

What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.

— Garry Winogrand

The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something.

— Robert Heinecken

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

— Minor White

The purpose of the photograph is to reveal the love that is felt in a single image.

— Amelie Nothomb

There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any…

— Jock Sturges

However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.

— Wright Morris

There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.

— Garry Winogrand

The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.

— Paul Theroux

The photograph, after all, is just a photograph. Words will determine its meaning and status.

— Wright Morris

A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.

— Edward Weston

As is often said of photography, this photograph is a frozen moment. A frozen moment is not a moment at all.

— Roni Horn

A photograph gives us the naked truth,which has to be clothed by the imagination.

— Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.

— Edward Steichen

A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than…

— Tomas Transtromer