A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Photography seems to fix, but this is an illusion created by our short lives. A photograph is merely a note held for… — Douglas McCulloh Copy Share Image
Now that you are dead, you are splendid. Photographs of people who have just died are worth twenty percent more, and for… — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
Let's put it this way - I photograph what interests me all the time. I live with the pictures to see what… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I see things going on before my eyes and I photograph them as they are, without trying to change them. I don't… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I think if you do a lot of interviews, you're laying yourself open. If you put yourself out, accept every invitation to… — Keeley Hawes Copy Share Image
It is hard to avoid the aspect of time when producing what ones sees as a photograph.... my images [are] something that… — Idris Khan Copy Share Image
but it's far too late for us; ring, hair, letters, photographs--all traces of our love will be scattered then, like an anagram... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't want to take photographs that I won't recognize as myself, and myself isn't necessarily just blankly staring at the lens. — Feist Copy Share Image
Photographers should make three or four prints from one negative and then crop them differently. When I was art director at Harper's… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it,… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going… — Gabriel Byrne 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
I don't have anything against colour. It is just not my first preference. I have always found black and white photographs to… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
[William] Eggleston's photographs look like they were taken by a Martian who lost the ticket for his flight home and ended up… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs. — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image