Part of the mystery of any given photograph is the fact that it was taken at a certain time and in a… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“I have learned that the camera is, as is often said, a powerful weapon. And the wielder of that weapon can be… — Waswo X. Waswo Copy Share Image
In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
There's no more film. Film is gone. We photograph digitally and electronically. We don't really use film the same way anymore -… — Stanley Donen Copy Share Image
[A photograph] should do something to the beholder; either give a more complete appreciation of beauty, or, if nothing else, even a… — Paul Outerbridge Copy Share Image
The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so… — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn't last very long. I can't go to a museum - I'll last 10 or… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war - the brutal… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
[William] Eggleston's photographs look like they were taken by a Martian who lost the ticket for his flight home and ended up… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
I've been collecting photographs since I don't know when, for a long time, for different reasons. You can find them on eBay… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
The photographer Ruth Bernhard used to tell me that this is like asking somebody how they evolved their signature. It is not… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
It doesn’t matter if you use a box camera or a Leica, the important thing is what motivates you when you are… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
Natural talent means to have the ability to transform, to evolve, to play and role-play with the photographer and the stylist. And… — Michael Flutie Copy Share Image
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
To enter Europe, you must have a valid passport with a photograph of yourself in which you look like you are being… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that… — Stephen Sprouse Copy Share Image
I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
I just think of everything I do and how happy it will make me to do it. I don't like having my… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
[The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
The nineteenth-century way of looking at the photograph was as a mirror for the memory, and at that time the photographs almost… — Peter C Bunnell Copy Share Image
It is best to meet in a cul-de-sac, A palace of velvet With windows of mirrors. There one is safe, There are… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A man who loves his wife will love her letters and her photographs because they speak to him of her. So if… — John Stott Copy Share Image
In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson,… — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or… — Herb Ritts Copy Share Image
A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques… — Tom Berenger Copy Share Image
When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
I want to photograph the considerable ceremonies of our present. I want to gather them, like somebody's grandmother putting up preserves, because… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
In Majorca, I can be myself. I go to the supermarket and the cinema, and I am just Rafa. Everyone knows me,… — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
Swedes are a really humble and shy people in many ways, but I think it's pretty much the same as in the… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
“A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
People say: But photographs are all lies. That's not the point. The lie is a truth, too. How the hell are we… — Leon Golub Copy Share Image
I'd like to take more pictures of real celebrities. It would be fabulous to photograph Brad Pitt. He's so good-looking and just… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
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