Photograph Quotes · Page 47

...Which brings me to the Hubble Space Telescope's newest images. If it's wonder that you're looking for, and mystery, don't just scan…

— Mark Bowden

By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work…

— Tod Papageorge

His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] has told me, urgently and repeatedly, that he thinks my photographs are crap. His exact words were,…

— Richard Gere

All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.

— Vladimir Nabokov

A man who loves his wife will love her letters and her photographs because they speak to him of her. So if…

— John Stott

When I look at pictures I have made, I have forgotten what I saw in front of the camera and respond only…

— Minor White

Newspaper photographs nowadays are highly tautologous. You'll have an article about, say, stopping the war. And the photograph that will be used…

— Stuart Franklin

All my photographs are about meetings and about coups de foudre - love at first sight. To do that type of photography,…

— Edouard Boubat

One book that has meant much to my writing is W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants. He uses a photograph of Vladimir Nabokov hunting…

— Samantha Hunt

Sometimes you remember your life in photographs that were never taken.

— Jackie Kay

A photographer who wants to see....must recognize the value of the familiar. Your ability to see is not increased by the distance…

— Freeman Patterson

I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone…

— Anne Hathaway

My parents offered me my first camera for my birthday and I developed an exclusive passion for it over the years. Since…

— Hedi Slimane

The invention of photography provided a radically new picture-making process - a process based not on synthesis but on selection. The difference…

— John Szarkowski

Poverty is not dated. Homeless people have looked the same since the thirteenth century. Go back to the times of Tolstoy and…

— Dustin Hoffman

It's not enough that [the photograph] is beautiful. If it doesn't move my heart, it won't move anyone else's heart.

— Rinko Kawauchi

And no photographs taken with the aid of flash light, either, if only out of respect for the actual light - even…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I told myself I'd do well by using the experience I gained during my seven years as Big Bang. In my mind,…

— Seungri

The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the…

— Ansel Adams

It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.

— Robert Breault

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul,…

— Ansel Adams

The one thing that is always clear in my mind is that the people, and their stories, and the themes of life…

— Peter Turnley

In the same way, photography, for me, has fragmented. You do have people doing bodies of work - often with found photographs…

— Stuart Franklin

Over the years I have photographed thousands of people. I have never stopped being curious and trying to discover new worlds. I…

— Joyce Tenneson

Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.

— Ken Rockwell