Photograph Quotes · Page 26

Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty.

— John Loengard

This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.

— Emmet Gowin

I choose colors I like and will photograph well. I don't do color theory!

— Colleen Atwood

Memories have no life. They're just pale reminders of a time that's gone-like faded photographs.

— Kevin Brooks

If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.

— Ansel Adams

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out…

— Irving Penn

I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence.

— Susan Meiselas

For me a photograph is most successful when it doesn't answer all the questions and it leaves something to be desired.

— Greg Gorman

“When we fall in love with someone there's a moment when we take a picture of that person, an emotional snapshot, that…

— Jim Geoghan

I really haven't seen this many people in one place since they took group photographs of all the criminals and lawbreakers in…

— George Carlin

Despite having been awarded the dubious honor of arthood, all photography is still perceived as having one foot in the real world,…

— Lucy R. Lippard

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally…

— Ansel Adams

My mother's favorite photograph was one of herself at twenty-four years old, unbearably beautiful, utterly glamorous, in a black-straw cartwheel hat, dark-red…

— Amy Bloom

In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or…

— Garry Winogrand

We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world.…

— A. D. Coleman

My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However,…

— Robert Frank

One of the things that I most believe in is the compose and wait philosophy of photography. It’s a very satisfying, almost…

— Sam Abell

Having a boy play a girl (and when I say 'play a girl' I don't mean that he is represented as a…

— Collier Schorr

“This was the photograph, I knew, that had already burned its way into my dreams and my shadows, into that part of…

— Dennis Lehane

How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and…

— Duane Michals

I love being photographed, or I should say I love the art of photography. It's about people taking photographs of you, stealing…

— Madonna Ciccone

I seek what lies beneath surface beauty. What interests me are intimate human complexities - the darkness as well as the light.…

— Joyce Tenneson

You just pray that something is going to hit you like lightning. Like a movie, a book, or a photograph, a painting,…

— Anna Sui

You are the accumulations of your experiences at any given point. And when you express something those things come out. The thing…

— Jim Jarmusch

It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.

— Walker Evans

“Isn’t it odd how much more one sees in a photograph than in real life? —VIRGINIA WOOLF”

— Natalie Dykstra

Carloads of tourists would photograph the family mailbox, and there was weird mail, death threats.

— Henry Thomas

A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

— Neil Gaiman

I have two pairs of eyes – one to paint and one to take photographs.

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite…

— Sebastiao Salgado

A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.

— Andreas Feininger

I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.

— Allegra Huston

Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

— W. Eugene Smith

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You…

— Chuck Close

My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century.

— Brian May

Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.

— Catherine Opie

He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I think all photographs lie. They capture such a small amount of a person's personality, if they capture anything.

— Martin Schoeller