Photograph Quotes · Page 32

This stupid celebrity thing is just a consequence of being good at what you do. I mean, no one would photograph David…

— Nick Moran

This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.

— Edward Weston

The trust we build over the years if of tremendous help to me when I start in a new project and need…

— Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Poetry is like a portrait of a moment or person, and the poem is almost like looking at a photograph; it slaps…

— Warsan Shire

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

All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about…

— Errol Morris

We don't take photographs with our cameras, we take them with our hearts and our minds. They are a reflection of ourselves...wha…

— Arnold Newman

As is often said of photography, this photograph is a frozen moment. A frozen moment is not a moment at all.

— Roni Horn

I can't be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

— Nora Ephron

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was…

— Jean Cocteau

Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important…

— Paul Strand

I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the…

— Jerry Uelsmann

It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Oglivy, but a few lines of print and a couple of…

— George Orwell

I'm still very sensitive and wary of people recognising me The only thing that really annoys me is people trying to surreptitiously…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

An essential part of any successful action on the part of the United States is an understanding on the part of the…

— George C. Marshall

In the simplest sentence, I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Basically, that's why I photograph, in the…

— Garry Winogrand

The eyes sparked a lot of things for me, it could be somebody remembering something they had witnessed or heard about, or…

— Alex Prager

We chose the most interesting image available to us to illustrate the theme of the cover, which is what we always try…

— Jon Meacham

The photograph annihilates the person.

— Siegfried Kracauer

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second, or one sixteenth, or one one-hundred-and-twenty-eighth. Snap your fingers;…

— Salman Rushdie

There are an awful lot of people in the world and it's going to be terribly hard to photograph all of them...…

— Diane Arbus

Getting a new passport took me a stupid amount of time. I had to go back five times with different photographs because…

— Sally Phillips