I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
I take pleasure in working with the non-art photographs that reside in public archives, essentially authorless and owned by the world itself,… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no… — William Dobell Copy Share Image
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then… — Minor White Copy Share Image
After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If I photograph you I don't have you, I have a photograph of you. It's got its own thing. That's really what… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs". — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
Let's put it this way - I photograph what interests me all the time. I live with the pictures to see what… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
We don't understand what photography is doing. We don't understand the power of its rhetoric. We don't understand why the Provoke photographers… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
I never thought that my work was going to become well-known. It started happening slowly, without my realizing it. But when I… — Tina Barney Copy Share Image
I was never in a school situation where someone said, This is the way a photograph is supposed to look. I was… — Robert Heinecken Copy Share Image
As actors, we need public relations to campaign for our next possible role, and any media promoting our work seems positive in… — Carson Grant Copy Share Image
If it's a likeness, alone, it's not a success. If, through my portraits, you can come to know the subjects more meaningfully,… — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The true authenticity of photographs for me is that they usually manipulate and lie about what is in front of the camera,… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
People believe pictures. It's a photograph that's in your passport, not a painting. Now, George Bernard Shaw said, 'I would exchange every… — Philip Jones Griffiths Copy Share Image
I hate those live action versions of animated cartoons. It ruins everything, the whole point of cartoons is to get away from… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity.… — Dawoud Bey Copy Share Image
I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
In a place like Afghanistan where the society is completely segregated, women have access to women. Men cannot always photograph women and… — Lynsey Addario Copy Share Image
Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
The people that I photographed allowed me to photograph them because they didn't want to be alone, and the truth is I… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
Why can't a photograph be all four things at once? -be an art object; be a document, what ever that means exactly,… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Things are very different now because a lot of those little clubs don't exist. In Soho for instance, where nearly half my… — Derek Ridgers Copy Share Image
My intention is to make interesting photographs. That's it, in the end. I don't make it up. Let's say it's a world… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Robert Vavra is one of these artists, part magician, part alchemist, who is able to create a series of photographs in unforgettable… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
Recently, I can't seem to take a straight photograph without thinking that what I am photographing won't be the final image -… — Idris Khan Copy Share Image
One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
It's always weird doing love scenes. And the thing is, you can't really photograph two people kissing naturally, because then you wouldn't… — Annabella Sciorra Copy Share Image
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