Photograph Quotes · Page 4

All photographs are self-portraits.

— Minor White

I never photograph reality.

— Sarah Moon

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

— Susan Sontag

Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.

— Garry Winogrand

Taking the photograph is the easiest part for me

— Duane Michals

I fight to take a good photograph every single time.

— Annie Leibovitz

I should have picked the photograph, it lasted longer than you.

— Marilyn Manson

I've hardly taken a photograph since 1967.

— Astrid Kirchherr

I have two pairs of eyes – one to paint and one to take photographs.

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Nothing in the world in perfect. Even a still photograph.

— Roger Rees

We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we…

— Sam Abell

And no photographs taken with the aid of flashlight either, if only out of respect of the actual light—even when there isn't…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

You can get anything from Mozilla Firefox-based themes to nature themes to your own photographs.

— Mitchell Baker

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

— David Hockney

The other week I wrote a piece on a photograph I got at a flea market, and I got about 70 hits.…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.

— W. Eugene Smith

We'd make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me. (On modeling for Alfred Stieglitz)

— Georgia O'Keeffe

If you finish like a photograph, on the other hand, the picture has as much personality as a photograph.

— Emile Gruppe

I don't think that there's anything that we shouldn't be allowed to photograph, really, unless there's something that's really deeply harmful to…

— Brady Corbet

There are moments that you suffer a lot, moments you won't photograph. There are some people you like better than others. But…

— Sebastiao Salgado

By trying many different approaches, you may slowly reach the point where you say more about yourself than about the objects or…

— Frank Horvat

Every photograph is the result of a physical imprint transferred by light reflections onto a sensitive surface. The photograph is thus a…

— Rosalind E. Krauss

Sometimes I work on film sets. I've done this for 40 years. I always wanted to photograph on the set of an…

— Mary Ellen Mark

Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The…

— Henri Matisse

I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I…

— Tommy Lee Jones

One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else…

— Markus Wolf

I can remember how I sang - a little more nasal-y back then. Listening to those old recordings is like seeing a…

— Ben Gibbard

If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree,…

— Calvin Coolidge

The moment you make a photograph you consign whatever you photograph to the past as that specific moment no longer exists, it…

— Chris Killip

Some of my pictures are poem-like in the sense that they are very condensed, haiku-lik. There are others that, if they were…

— Sally Mann

No matter how physically faint, a photograph involuntarily whisper of something exquisitely carnal. The weeks, the years, whatever stretches of time separating…

— Max Kozloff

Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is…

— Berenice Abbott

[Cameras] tend to turn people into things and the photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise…

— Marshall McLuhan

If you photograph for a long time, you get to understand such things as body language. I often do not look at…

— Martin Parr

I try to photograph with love and sympathy.

— Antony Armstrong-Jones

Any good photograph is a successful synthesis of technique and art.

— Andreas Feininger

A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see

— Leon Levinstein

Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs.

— Bert Hardy

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

— Man Ray

The only thing that gets in the way of a really good photograph, is the camera

— Norman Parkinson