Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much… — Paul Outerbridge Copy Share Image
I just get the will to do it. I don’t plan a photograph in advance… I work by impulse. No philosophy. No… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“We photographers are a despicable bunch. We take photographs. The best of us do not show people as they wish to be… — Waswo X. Waswo Copy Share Image
What is a photograph? For me, a fragment of quick-silver, a lucid dream, a scribbled note from the subconscious to be deciphered,… — Eva Rubinstein Copy Share Image
Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited… — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
Statistically you take thousands of photographs of your first kid, and then with your second kidyou take about half of that. And… — Milla Jovovich Copy Share Image
Sometimes the most interesting visual phenomena occur when you least expect it. Other times, you think youre getting something amazing and the… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries… — Emily St. John Mandel Copy Share Image
You are the accumulations of your experiences at any given point. And when you express something those things come out. The thing… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
You just pray that something is going to hit you like lightning. Like a movie, a book, or a photograph, a painting,… — Anna Sui Copy Share Image
Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that 'language' themselves just as musicians… — Howard S. Becker Copy Share Image
I don't really remember the day when I stood behind my camera with Henry Kissinger on the other side. I am sure… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
If you look at photographers who say, "I hate digital photography," they all use Photoshop, even if it's to make the sky… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
The documentary style is an incredibly flexible and useful one. It's a wonderful tool for establishing the credibility of the version of… — Frank Gohlke Copy Share Image
The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
You can carry a photograph with you on a thumb drive, and you can make it bigger or smaller - it's a… — Mary Mattingly Copy Share Image
I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because… — Brigitte Bardot Copy Share Image
I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Note 4. For these and other reasons the cat is also very hard to photograph. The best photographs are instantaneous, as the… — Carl Van Vechten Copy Share Image
A man goes into Boots and says: "Have you got any Viagra?" "Do you have a prescription?" asks the chemist. "No," he… — Frank Carson Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status… — Sterling Hayden Copy Share Image
If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
The idea of photographing an Arab man naked and having him simulate homosexual activity, and having an American GI woman in the… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
When students scoff at the idea of a magical relation between a picture and what it represents, ask them to take a… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
When people look at a photograph, they believe it... My photographs crawl along that edge. I document the world, but from my… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
I was working with mud and photographs and thread, eyelashes, carrots and acetone... I was throwing radios off buildings and... remember floating… — William Wegman Copy Share Image
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I… — Francesco Carrozzini Copy Share Image
Today a lot of things are so celebrity-oriented; it's only because it's celebrity and the photograph is lost. To me it's important… — Herb Ritts Copy Share Image
Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in… — Howard S. Becker Copy Share Image
I don't pretend to make my photographs speak the truth of what Mexico is all about. But in its villages I can… — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I want to take some quite incredible photographs that have never been taken before... pictures which are simple and complex at the… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
It's quite an experience to have filming done in your house. When they come in, they photograph every piece of furniture and… — Doris Day Copy Share Image
Photography is like making cheese. It takes a hell of a lot of milk to make a small amount of cheese just… — Robert Gillis Copy Share Image
The earth doesn’t care where death occurs. ...It’s the artist, by coming in and writing about it or painting it or taking… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
