Photograph Quotes · Page 35

I have no intention of flattering people. I like wrinkles and crow's feet and flaws, and somebody should know, if I'm going…

— Chuck Close

Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Of course, if you photograph the behavior of women and men at a particular time in history, in a particular situation, you…

— Carol Tavris

When I started photographing my boyfriend of years ago, Brian, I realised I had no right to photograph other people having sex…

— Nan Goldin

Excellent anthology... a celebration of our goodness and our potential for growth. The sense of celebration is stretched by the beautiful photographs.

— Joseph C Zinker

I think way back, the '20s or the '30s, when Kodak came out with the Brownie and they put a list of…

— Douglas Coupland

Nature is a mirror in which I am reflected, because by rescuing this land from sad devastation [through recreating it in photographs],…

— Mario Giacomelli

The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual…

— Ed Markey

I think you have to have a real point of view that's your own. You have to tell it your way. And,…

— Mary Ellen Mark

However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.

— Wright Morris

When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Even in this age of digital manipulation, photographs continue to hold a huge degree of power and meaning. They're beautiful and sad…

— Michael Light

If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on…

— Anna Wintour

To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.

— Duane Michals

All photography is propaganda.

— Martin Parr

I realize that as I get more experience as I get older, my perception changes and that feeds the photograph.

— Stephen Shore

The photograph is the most perfect picture. It does not change; it is absolute, and therefore autonomous, unconditional, devoid of style. Both…

— Gerhard Richter

You find photographs in so many different ways - from chance encounters, from looking at your negatives, from the way the light…

— Sylvia Plachy

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope…

— Galen Rowell

Visual renditions of war not only establish what can be seen, and the audio-track established what can be heard, but the photographs…

— Judith Butler

I always look at my favourite photographs or favourite movies by James Bidgood or Sofia Coppola before I write my songs -…

— Charli XCX

I don't particularly care about photographic authorship. Whether an astronaut who doesn't even have a viewfinder makes an image, a robotic camera,…

— Michael Light

All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable.

— Susan Sontag

When I photograph someone, I want to shoot the subject and get them out of my studio so I can play with…

— Nikki Sixx

I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.

— Man Ray