I love to photograph the tools of one's trade: Duncan Grant's paintbrushes, the typewriter of Herman Hesse, or even my own guitar,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Language does this to our memories—simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An oft-told story is like a photograph in a family album; eventually, it… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
The suburban landscape is alien and strange and exotic. I photograph it out of longing and desire. My photographs are also about… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
Now in the 1980s, I happened to notice that if you look at an aerial photograph of an African village, you see… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form… — Ralph Eugene Meatyard Copy Share Image
The fact is that the camera is literal if anything, which gives it something in common with a thermometer... Often the tension… — John Loengard Copy Share Image
[After Easy Rider] I couldn't get another movie, so I lived in Mexico City for a couple of years. I lived in… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
Noon-day sunshine cinema-ized the site, turning the bridge and the river into an over-exposed picture. Photographing it with my Instamatic 400 was… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“He wanted to live life to the extreme, but without any mess or complications. He wanted to live life in such a… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
About shadows: do we see shadows? Loads of people don't. A camera will notice a shadow, but how many people have got… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
In my philosophy, the meaning of life derives from the people one has known and loved. I have met my share of… — Walter Rosenblum Copy Share Image
Taking photographs is generally an act of 'looking at the object, whereas 'being seen' or 'showing' is what is most interest to… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
The next night he asked Jonah if he could take $9.49 out of Jonah's secret stash that only Danny and his mum… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I remember when I was in the prisoner camp, I was a French prisoner. And I saw the first photograph from the… — Manfred Rommel Copy Share Image
Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
He who writes must master the rules of grammar. He who shoots photographs needs only to follow the instructions as given by… — Vilem Flusser Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Don't let anything sneak past you. Don't say, 'Well, oh, I'll take a picture and put it in my photograph album.' I… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
there is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
If I could find them (assemblages) in nature I would photograph them. I make them because through photography I have a knowledge… — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
My advice to photographers is to get out there in the field and take photographs but also if they are students to… — Martine Franck Copy Share Image
My mother photographed Donald Judd in Marfa, Texas, right before he passed away. He was actually the first artist whose work I… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There must be a certain look of availability in the women I photograph. I think the woman who gives the appearance of… — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
Because we see reality in different ways, we must understand that we are looking at different truths rather than the truth and… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
My photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. My prints show the… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
I don't photograph for other people. I love an audience, mind you. Once I've got them there, then I love an audience.… — Brett Weston Copy Share Image
A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Exposure to the reproductions [of Corbis-owned fine art photographs] is likely to increase rather than diminish reverence for the real art and… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to… — Eliot Porter Copy Share Image
I like to capture moments. It's like a photograph. Ten years from now you look at the photograph and you don't remember… — Keren Ann Copy Share Image
I've never been on safari because I've got a phobia of bugs. I just don't want things crawling on me when I'm… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
All seeing, I think, is painful. Every photograph is a little sting, a hurt inflicted in its subject, but even more: every… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
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