What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I try to photograph what can't be photographed - psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality. — Barbara Ess Copy Share Image
When we describe a process, or make out an invoice, or photograph a tree, we create models; without them we would know… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
During my lifetime I have met dozens of writers and photographers in dozens of different countries. But I have encountered no one… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
Why photograph war? Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior, which has existed throughout history, by… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we live according to a generalized image-repertoire. Consider the United Sates,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Photographs are like our children. We put the best of ourselves into them - the best of our vision, our minds, our… — Maggie Steber Copy Share Image
In the end, the only heritage we have is our planet, and I have decided to go to the most pristine places… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
A photographer's best pictures are from deep inside him, and also some of the worst. Some photographers enjoy distinguished careers without ever… — Burk Uzzle Copy Share Image
Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When you're on a movie and the production department says, "We need old photographs of you - your character - when you… — Amy Ryan Copy Share Image
The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house. Except for the chrome hooks, he… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
Yes, there's a certain power to a photograph. The camera has a way of disorienting a person, if it wants to and,… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
I don't know what my formula is. I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds. I like a little… — Leo McCarey Copy Share Image
Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
What's happening is that people are making a billion photographs a year of their cats, frequently with the cats wearing costumes. Do… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
The changes taking place in this part of Europe are enormous and very rapid. One world is disappearing. I am trying to… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
I've met a lot of artists who wanted to paint me. LeRoy Neiman was one. He did it from a photograph. He… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I hate my picture being taken. A photograph by definition captures one mood. And I have a million facets to my personality;… — Jane Pauley Copy Share Image
You should make photographs with your heart, mind, eye & soul. The capture device is simply there to allow you to transfer… — Bill Frakes Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's… That somebody else's tragedy… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
Photographs freed from the scientific bias can, and indeed usually do, have double meanings, implied meanings, unintended meanings, can hint and insinuate,… — Peter C Bunnell Copy Share Image
Well, there's that girl on the Internet - although this isn't an example of someone who doesn't know they're on - but… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
Find the most puzzling kind of art you can think of, and then go out and try to approximate it with your… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
The thing about photography is, some people surround themselves with extremely strong subject matter. And unless you're a moron, you're going to… — Andy Summers Copy Share Image
Photographs help people look at things they may not be able or may not want to look at. Until you can look… — Lynn Johnston Copy Share Image
I have asked students at the beginning of their careers, what things of that sort might haunt them – what things they… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I'm very moved by the fact that people are drawn into the pictures and that they do bring their own history and… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes known, a new… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
As much as I'm not a journalist, I use journalism. And when you photograph a relationship, it's quite wonderful to let something… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
Being constantly in the public eye gives me a special responsibility, particularly that of using the impact of photographs to transmit a… — Princess Diana Copy Share Image
Someone said to me, early on in film school if you can photograph the human face you can photograph anything, because that… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
I don't usually give out advice or recipes, but you must let the person looking at the photograph go some of the… — Robert Doisneau Copy Share Image
It became the middle finger I couldn’t raise in PR photographs. The mustache became my silent last word in the verbal battles… — Robin Olds Copy Share Image