Photograph Quotes · Page 28

I photograph only something that has to do with me, and I never did anything that I did not want to do.…

— Josef Koudelka

In the age of the camera phone it's a bit weird when you're sitting having dinner in a restaurant and people think…

— Hugh Bonneville

Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to…

— Richard Avedon

Richard Prince's most famous photograph was made by me.

— Sam Abell

You can't get a guarantee from everyone who appears in personal photographs that they will forever remain warm presences in one's life…

— Emily Yoffe

... if [a photograph is] unbelievably real it becomes superreal or another kind of super real, better than real... [it] also can…

— Ralph Eugene Meatyard

Anyday, one can walk down the street in a big city and see a thousand people. Any photographer can photograph these people…

— Langston Hughes

Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more…

— David McCullough

[He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand…

— David Nicholls

Sometimes the most interesting visual phenomena occur when you least expect it. Other times, you think youre getting something amazing and the…

— Michael Kenna

When she looked at herself in her wedding photographs, Ammu felt the woman that looked back at her was someone else. A…

— Arundhati Roy

A photographer's best pictures are from deep inside him, and also some of the worst. Some photographers enjoy distinguished careers without ever…

— Burk Uzzle

I never take photographs myself. I don’t feel like a photographer, more like a recycler

— Christian Boltanski

Men die, heroically or fruitlessly, but man carries on. In Israel it is the same: the farmer must till the fields, the…

— Leonard Freed

It's a little bit like talking about the life of writing. The life of writing may be about many things, but it…

— Sam Abell

I guess my choice of medium depends on how I want to interpret the idea. Sometimes the interpretation works best in a…

— Wardell Milan

I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing…

— Ruth Bernhard

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

— Allegra Huston

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

— Jock Sturges

There are certain pictures I can never take. We turn on the TV and are smothered with cruelty and suffering and I…

— Edouard Boubat

I love the Dutch impressionists - Vermeer, Rembrandt. What they were able to do with light was astonishing. As for photographers, I…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

Photography allows you to be a part of the action and document stories. It is a perfect extension of my body. I…

— Chris Burkard

We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs.…

— Fred Ritchin

I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial…

— Ansel Adams

What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents... All the ways in…

— Zoe Leonard