Photograph Quotes · Page 27

Poetic and speculative photographs can result if one works carefully and accurately, yet letting chance relationships have full play.

— Frederick Sommer

I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And…

— Stephen Chbosky

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.

— Garry Winogrand

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

— Penelope Lively

I often try to photograph things about a person that are not visible.

— Duane Michals

Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?

— Lillie Langtry

Photographs are never records of the way things are; they're records of the way things were.

— John Paul Caponigro

What do you say to your sister who poses in the nude? It's not like you are really itching to see photographs…

— Ron Reagan

A very faithful drawing may actually tell us more about the model but despite the promptings of our critical intelligence it will…

— Andre Bazin

I was getting money for showing one man killing another. Two lives were destroyed and I was getting paid for it. (On…

— Eddie Adams

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we…

— Barbara Kruger

If you're going to photograph skateboarders you can't run after them, you've got to learn how to skate. So at about 50…

— Larry Clark

I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone…

— Anne Hathaway

My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention. Even though my work is appearing in magazines…

— David LaChapelle

I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they…

— Garry Winogrand

If you look at photographers who say, "I hate digital photography," they all use Photoshop, even if it's to make the sky…

— Thomas Ruff

The documentary style is an incredibly flexible and useful one. It's a wonderful tool for establishing the credibility of the version of…

— Frank Gohlke

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

Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that 'language' themselves just as musicians…

— Howard S. Becker

Photography obviously lends itself so well towards fashion. It's capturing that moment and that inspiration, and as a designer you are constantly…

— Georgina Chapman

Influences come from everywhere but when you are actually shooting you work primarily by instinct. But what is instinct? It is a…

— Arnold Newman

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. One can't possess reality, one can…

— Susan Sontag

I did a different size of photograph at the FIAT gallery - this time the images are 30" by 40," so they're…

— Scott Schuman

[A photograph] is a part of the evidence. I'm not saying it's the truth - it's part of the evidence.

— Jim Goldberg

I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.

— Nigel Dennis

But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.

— Jock Sturges

The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.

— Margaret Atwood

I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.

— Chris Jordan

My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.

— Mario Testino

My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself.

— Uta Barth

People photograph everything and nothing - no interaction is deemed to have actually happened unless somebody has a picture of it,

— Hugh Jackman

I like to add personal touches to my decorating style, including photographs and nostalgic items that remind me of family and home.

— Karlie Kloss

Practice the mechanics of making photographs until it becomes second nature.

— Fred Picker

My wealth is measured not in money but in photographs, not in quantity but creativity.

— Destin Sparks

I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze.

— Janet Fitch

Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it.

— Walter Sickert

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

— Susan Sontag

I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention.

— Robert Rauschenberg

With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn't know who to work…

— Patti Smith