What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century. — Brian May Copy Share Image
For me a photograph is most successful when it doesn't answer all the questions and it leaves something to be desired. — Greg Gorman Copy Share Image
Carloads of tourists would photograph the family mailbox, and there was weird mail, death threats. — Henry Thomas Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it odd how much more one sees in a photograph than in real life? —VIRGINIA WOOLF” — Natalie Dykstra Copy Share Image
It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air. — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The aeroplane should open a fruitful occupation for women. I see no reason they cannot realize handsome incomes by carrying passengers between… — Harriet Quimby Copy Share Image
The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
People aren't really looking at the result when taking a picture on an iPhone. And they don't print it. So to me,… — Tina Barney Copy Share Image
It could be that people want to consume sculpture the way they consume paintings - through photographs... I'm interested in the experience… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are… — Eddie Adams Copy Share Image
I have just one black and white photograph left of my mother when she was younger. She was 17 when it was… — Liz Murray Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a… — Anthony Weiner Copy Share Image
I bought my first camera to photograph my brother's children. I learned a lot from that experience. The value of innocence and… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
A [spatial, temporal] work had only to be exhibited in a gallery and then written about and reproduced as a photograph in… — Dan Graham Copy Share Image
I'm pretty open. I'm not afraid of men. I'm not afraid of women. I'm not afraid of sex and sexuality. It's part… — Mario Sorrenti Copy Share Image
Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to mean anything until the subject is dead. This is the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Average Jones had come by his nickname inevitably. His parents had foredoomed him to it when they furnished him with the initials… — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
I'm good at using my face as a canvas… I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors… You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in… — John Divola Copy Share Image
Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of… — Christian Metz Copy Share Image
For me, this is one of the advantages of not using digital, I never know when I have a good photograph! I… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Often I have struggled for days to get the image of the photograph to overlap the spirit I see. It is an… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
The key is to photograph your obsessions, whether that’s old people’s hands or skyscrapers. Think of a blank canvas, because that’s what… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
Photographs need to demand the viewer's attention, often implicitly, posing questions as to the nature of what is being depicted. Photographs are… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It… — Luke Davies Copy Share Image
I have an abiding faith in the fact that time will change the value of photographs. What you see today may be… — Rondal Partridge Copy Share Image
I was dyslexic as a child and it took me years to get passed that. I read a lot but it was… — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
Much like photographs, I also love the idea that ghosts are memories frozen in time. We can be haunted by both just… — Ed Gass-Donnelly Copy Share Image
For each final photograph, I'll have shot loads of film. I suppose people don't see all that. But when someone looks at… — Catherine Yass Copy Share Image
A photograph permits a first viewing, and then an individual reflection. It solicits participation, and encourages individuality in interpretation. Television is an… — Oliviero Toscani Copy Share Image
Nature is a mirror in which I am reflected, because by rescuing this land from sad devastation [through recreating it in photographs],… — Mario Giacomelli Copy Share Image
![“A [spatial, temporal] work had only to be exhibited in a gallery and then written about and reproduced as a photograph in an art magazine. Then this record of the no longer extant installation, along with accretions of information after the fact, became the basis for its fame, and to a large…” quote by Dan Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2f1/dan-graham-70443_art_a-spatial-temporal-work-had-only-to-be-e_3179991.jpg)
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