Photograph Quotes · Page 29

I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.

— Man Ray

I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.

— W. Eugene Smith

We'd make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me. (On modeling for Alfred Stieglitz)

— Georgia O'Keeffe

If you finish like a photograph, on the other hand, the picture has as much personality as a photograph.

— Emile Gruppe

Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.

— Wim Wenders

I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own.

— Jamie Bell

I'm working on a speed boat at the moment. Much more exciting. It'll really kick ass, give great photographs for the people…

— Eddie Izzard

I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.

— Andy Warhol

If you open up a magazine and there's a photograph of you with a giant red circle around your thigh, like, look…

— Scarlett Johansson

In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller…

— Susan Sontag

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached…

— Ansel Adams

It's certainly important to include text beside documentary photographs. Furthermore, it's important to include text in a way that's useful and accessible.

— Stuart Franklin

I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.

— Janet Malcolm

What a photograph shows us is how a particular thing could be seen, or could be made to look - at a…

— A. D. Coleman

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea…

— Susan Sontag

You can talk about a caption underneath a photograph being true or false, because there is a linguistic element. You can claim…

— Errol Morris

The first man-made satellite to orbit the earth was named Sputnik. The first living creature in space was Laika. The first rocket…

— John F. Kennedy

There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of…

— Frederick Buechner

It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to…

— Kate Morton

I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the…

— Larry Clark

Each time I make a photograph I celebrate the life I love and the beauty I know and the happiness I have…

— Ruth Bernhard

No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries…

— Emily St. John Mandel

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

— Michael Kenna

I want people to see that all-important time in a different way-in the way it was. For of a number of reasons,…

— David McCullough

Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

— Seth Godin

Whenever I am tired of making photographs of drawings, I make drawings of photographs.

— Vik Muniz

One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

— Annie Leibovitz

There are some old photographs from where if you take anything out, even a chicken or a little bird, the magic will…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

And no photographs taken with the aid of flashlight either, if only out of respect of the actual light—even when there isn't…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

You can get anything from Mozilla Firefox-based themes to nature themes to your own photographs.

— Mitchell Baker

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

— David Hockney

Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs

— Art Wolfe

It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.)

— Donald Rumsfeld

Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

— Martin Parr

Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography.

— Alexander Rodchenko

Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.

— Stephen Chbosky

I'm even taller in person, because photographs shrink you down and steal your soul native american.

— Thom Yorke

A photograph can, by the addition of an unimportant spot of color, become a photomontage, a work of art of a special…

— John Heartfield

The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

— Susan Sontag

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a…

— Susan Sontag