Photograph Quotes · Page 45

I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.

— Andy Warhol

...it is pretentious for photographers to believe that their pictures alone change things. If they did, we wouldn't be besieged by war,…

— Eugene Richards

When I photograph, I try to use my instincts as much as possible. It is when pictures are unconsidered and irrational that…

— Jacob Aue Sobol

I wanted to jeopardize my own image. With my image I had already produced art pieces such as videos of photographs.

— Orlan

The changes taking place in this part of Europe are enormous and very rapid. One world is disappearing. I am trying to…

— Josef Koudelka

I have asked students at the beginning of their careers, what things of that sort might haunt them – what things they…

— Robert Adams

“Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and environmental politics. His brother, the painter…

— Rebecca Solnit

Doesn't the world inside a black and white photograph seem more real? It's because the real world is losing its color

— Tablo

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.

— Duane Michals

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

— Susan Sontag

My mother's favorite photograph was one of herself at twenty-four years old, unbearably beautiful, utterly glamorous, in a black-straw cartwheel hat, dark-red…

— Amy Bloom

I use the camera as a dumb copying device that only serves to document whatever phenomenon appears before it through the conditions…

— Douglas Huebler

Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject.

— Victor Skrebneski

I never really made any money and it certainly cost me more to take photographs than I got for them.

— Dennis Hopper

A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking.

— John Paul Caponigro

When we were kids, growing up in the sixties, the only images we had of ourselves were either still photographs or 8mm…

— Catherine Opie

I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations…

— Saul Leiter

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

— Ansel Adams

Composition is a side issue. Its role in my selection of photographs is a negative one at best. By which I mean…

— Gerhard Richter

Man Ray... loved games and absolutely knew about the camera. It is interesting to note that, although I used him in only…

— William Wegman

It takes a while for a photograph to mature. That sounds really pretentious, but it takes a time for it to go…

— Harry Benson

I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They’re upstairs in my socks.

— Groucho Marx

There are some old photographs from where if you take anything out, even a chicken or a little bird, the magic will…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the…

— John Berger

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live…

— Bob Dylan