I never take a picture of a face because a face is somebody, an arm is not recognizable as somebody. When you… — Annette Messager Copy Share Image
A photograph to me is always a reminder of how the person was on a certain day in that certain light fixed.… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art… — Dennis Oppenheim Copy Share Image
Usually I think if there is something imperfect in a photograph it makes the picture more real. Photographs that are slick, smooth,… — John Loengard Copy Share Image
The spiritual aspect of my work has more to do with the sense that things in the world can be perceived and… — Abelardo Morell Copy Share Image
I love sharing photographs and websites, I'm for all of these things. I'm for Facebook. But to say that this is sociability?… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in making the photographs look real, but a lot of them are highly synthetic. They're hybrids, located somewhere between… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
If you reduce sculpture to the flat plane of the photograph, you're passing on only a residue of your concerns... You're not… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
My camera, my intentions stopped no man from falling. Nor did they aid him after he had fallen. It could be said… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
“The photograph is in my hand. It is the photograph of a man and a woman. They are at an amusement park,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Only about one per cent of my paintings show family members. Do they help me deal with problems? It's likely that these… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The train we had so confidently boarded had been speeding at almost 100 miles an hour and it had derailed. Someone, I… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
Photographs are but one link in a potentially endless chain of reduplication; themselves duplicates (of both their objects and, in a sense,… — Craig Owens Copy Share Image
Initially I borrowed the word “perverse” from Roland Barthes, meaning pleasure-driven and not geared to inform or promote a service or a… — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
The question is not whether a picture is good, in some formal, technical sense, but, does it mean what I need it… — Thomas Roma Copy Share Image
A good photograph was never what I was looking for. I like to have a point. I had to have a point… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself - for the photograph - without consideration of how… — Eliot Porter Copy Share Image
The first photograph I ever experienced consciously is a picture of my mother from before she gave birth to me. Unfortunately, it's… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I'm a huge, huge fan of photography. I have a small photography collection. As soon as I started to make some money,… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
Ideas for songs can come from something as simple as a photograph and letting my imagination run wild on an old photograph… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Boy George has been charged with falsely imprisoning a man who'd gone to his apartment to pose for photographs. Going to Boy… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
Wherever there is disaster, the newsman is there. If he cannot find disaster, he searches for the odd and the peculiar, the… — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I am not an artist, and I never intended to be one. I hope I have made some good photographs, but what… — Cornell Capa Copy Share Image
I was born to a black childhood of confusion and poverty. The memory of that beginning influences my work today, It is… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
I don't like a tormented photograph. Something attracts you in them, but the attraction isn't because she has a pot on her… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
There are things that I teach, about building photographs, and that's why people come to my workshops. When people come to the… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Art work is inconclusive. It opens your mind up. At least, that's what I hope it does. And advertising, using exactly the… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
When I look at pictures I have made, I have forgotten what I saw in front of the camera and respond only… — Minor White Copy Share Image
It seems to me as natural and necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages or photographs… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world.… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of… — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The photographer's intentions do not determine the meaning of a photograph, which will have its own career, blown by the whims and… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it,… — J. Carter Brown Copy Share Image
I don't really have any faith in anybody enjoying photographs in a large enough sense to matter. I think it's all about… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
One of the problems with technology is that no photograph, as superb and outstanding as it may be, will ever be as… — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
