I'm never more aware of the limitations of language than when I try to describe beauty. Language can create its own loveliness,… — Scott Sanders Copy Share Image
When I teach a class I often give the assignment: Photograph someone you love. I ask people to do this so they… — John Loengard Copy Share Image
When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move;… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“[Photography] allows me to accede to an infra-knowledge; it supplies me with a collection of partial objects and can flatter a certain… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
You can photograph anything. You can be inside, outside, doesn't matter, you're controlling the light. It gives you great flexibility. That was… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
In music I still prefer the minor key, and in printing I like the light coming from the dark. I like pictures… — W. Eugene Smith 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
I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I love to photograph the tools of one's trade: Duncan Grant's paintbrushes, the typewriter of Herman Hesse, or even my own guitar,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
For me a photograph is most successful when it doesn't answer all the questions and it leaves something to be desired. — Greg Gorman Copy Share Image
As Estelle Jussim wrote, it is almost impossible for a single photograph to state both the problem and the solution. — John Pfahl 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
At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us. — Minor White Copy Share Image
I'm not a great one for chatting people up, because it's phony. I don't want people to feel at ease. You want… — Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon Copy Share Image
I don't regret the numerous pictures of Brigitte Bardot, but I'd rather have a good photograph of my father. — Raymond Depardon 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
It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the… — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods. — David Sylvester Copy Share Image
Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.) — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy's jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that seduce me into believing in the… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
A photograph has picked up a fact of life, and that fact will live forever. — Raghu Rai Copy Share Image
I want a History of Looking. For the Photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer cannot… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
You can also see sometimes that the best pictures are the ones where you didn't try so hard, where you were just… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
