Photograph Quotes · Page 30

I would drown in objects if I didn't have the ability to photograph them.

— Martin Parr

I continue to hope and believe that the best stories and photographs are yet to occur. My quest for them will certainly…

— Peter Turnley

Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life…

— Berenice Abbott

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

— Ansel Adams

You look at it [a photograph] and all around the real world is humming, buzzing and moving, and yet in this little…

— Joel Meyerowitz

To make a photograph is already the first artificial act.

— Gerhard Richter

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

I'm in love with the markets of the world. It's a photograph of a city, a culture.

— Alain Ducasse

[Cindy Sherman's] photographs reverse the terms of art and autobiography. They use art not to reveal the artist's true self but to…

— Douglas Crimp

I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination... I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are…

— Man Ray

My camera, my intentions stopped no man from falling. Nor did they aid him after he had fallen. It could be said…

— W. Eugene Smith

Anyone who looks for life can find it... and they don't need to photograph ashcans. The average camera fan reminds me of…

— Weegee

I think I'm really fortunate to be an installation artist who is heavily invested in photography: I don't have the emotional problems…

— Sandy Skoglund

I try to photograph my own and society's hypocrisy.

— Martin Parr

After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have…

— Patti Smith

I like to photograph democratically.

— William Eggleston

I collect rare photographs... I have two... One of Houdini locking his keys in his car... the other is a rare picture…

— Steven Wright

You just can't win. Men have very recent land mines in their heads. Women have recorded conversations and photographs in their heads…

— Denis Leary

I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I…

— Tommy Lee Jones

All photographs are about light. The great majority of photographs record light as a way of describing objects in space. A few…

— John Paul Caponigro

Taking the photograph is the easiest part for me

— Duane Michals

I was obsessed from the moment I took my first photograph. I wanted to make photography my career.

— Giles Duley

You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you.

— Harold Feinstein

I tend to always carry a camera with me. I live next to a fire station, and I've got lots of photos…

— Gordon Bell

My father has made a museum with my cuttings and photographs.

— Andres Iniesta