Photograph Quotes · Page 30

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 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

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

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

— Stephen Chbosky

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

— Garry Winogrand

Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character…

— David Bailey

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in…

— Richard Avedon

[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

In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be…

— Sam Abell

When painting portraits a lot of people say, 'Why not get a photograph of the person?' Photography is wonderful and it is…

— Jamie Wyeth

Long before we discovered mirrors and photographs, our mothers' reflections provided us with the earliest glimpses of our female identity.

— Debra Evans

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

In photography, the issue of the integration of form and content is exceptionally difficult because of the widely held belief that photographs…

— Peter C Bunnell

It's nothing but a matter of seeing, thinking, and interest. That's what makes a good photograph. And then rejecting anything that would…

— Andreas Feininger

But it is also untrue that I have nothing specific in mind. As with my landscapes: I see countless landscapes, photograph barely…

— Gerhard Richter

I like the idea all memory is fiction, that we have queued a couple of things in the back of our minds…

— Steven Tyler

I told myself I'd do well by using the experience I gained during my seven years as Big Bang. In my mind,…

— Seungri

There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of…

— Ansel Adams

Like, if you look at Heidi Montag, who got 10 surgeries she didn't need, I think that's unfortunate. I've always been voluptuous…

— Holly Madison

I never had any intention nor interest in being an artist, but when I made work I realized that this was my…

— Paul Rusconi

I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in. Whether you're photographing for yourself, for…

— Steve McCurry

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

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

— Duane Michals

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

— Penelope Lively

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

— John Paul Caponigro

[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

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

— Lillie Langtry

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

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

— Catherine Opie

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

— Martin Schoeller

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

— Frederick Sommer

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

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

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

— Allegra Huston

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

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