The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious… — Thalassa Cruso Copy Share Image
Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on… — Tibor Kalman Copy Share Image
“When they left, I saw four or five black-and-white photographs I had taken of you, peeping from the file. They'd faded a… — Sachin Kundalkar Copy Share Image
How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The content of Saul Leiter's photographs arrives on a sort of delay: it takes a moment after the first glance to know… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Perhaps the first photograph ever taken, Niépce's view of the rooftops over Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, was a truly pure photograph. The second one he… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
For 'The Hotel' I spent one year to find the hotel, I spent three months going through the text and writing it,… — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
What is important to my work is the individual picture. I photograph stories on assignment, and of course they have to be… — Steve McCurry Copy Share Image
I think I am most fond of the unseen part. I mean that the various cultural experiences that I go through, and… — Sandy Skoglund Copy Share Image
I'd really rather leave it to others to say what they see in it and to see if I've put something into… — Bruce Barnbaum Copy Share Image
First of all, I appropriate photographs.In presenting the Richard Prince photograph I tried to be as neutral as I could be. I… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I took photos from 1976 to when I left in 1993, primarily for Interview and a column I had called "Bob Colacello's… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
I want people to see that all-important time in a different way-in the way it was. For of a number of reasons,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The photograph, now they are detached from their original surroundings, they are involved in a close world in which they only relate… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
A still photograph is something which you can always go back to. You can put it on your wall and look at… — Steve McCurry Copy Share Image
I believe in the resonance and staying power of quiet photographs. These photographs required a certain seeing, but few special techniques, and… — William Albert Allard Copy Share Image
I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
I use the camera as a dumb copying device that only serves to document whatever phenomenon appears before it through the conditions… — Douglas Huebler Copy Share Image
What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents... All the ways in… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
I photograph only something that has to do with me, and I never did anything that I did not want to do.… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you.… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
One of the many ways of contesting level-zero, and one of the best, is to take photographs, an activity in which one… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
I was a consultant for Kodak back in the late 80's. There were engineers there who told me that in the future,… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
As humans, we need to question all these notions. What does freedom mean for us? What are our responsibilities? It takes one-250th… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
Selfies became too big. The selfie photos are not good. Fans ask me for a selfie, and I say, 'Let's just do… — Marin Cilic Copy Share Image
I don't think that there's that much difference between a photograph of a fist up someone's ass and a photograph of carnations… — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
I like to photograph miniature constructed scenes - I'll buy a very sad cake decoration like a plastic computer for a dreary… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make… — John Divola Copy Share Image
I started making photographs as if I were a child myself. This got me to look at things more closely, more slowly,… — Abelardo Morell Copy Share Image
As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the only memories I have are those that I’ve created around photographs of me as a child. Maybe I’m… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted… — Michelle Williams Copy Share Image
My pictures are not really about the children that I photograph. They're more like actors in a film. I think you can… — Loretta Lux Copy Share Image
My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
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