I'm pretty lenient with myself about time - if I feel like taking photographs of small things inside ice cubes or making… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
The eyes sparked a lot of things for me, it could be somebody remembering something they had witnessed or heard about, or… — Alex Prager Copy Share Image
I will look through 200 photographs of Kate Moss and there will be just one that I connect with for some reason,… — Stella Vine Copy Share Image
Two factors thus emerge as requisites of success in the field of creative photography. First, the subject must be photogenic. Second, its… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
It's never as good the second time. Things don't get better. You can't always go back, a lot of it has been… — George A Tice Copy Share Image
The worst thing is when people try and take pictures surreptitiously. I always say, 'Look, you can ask me for a photograph.… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whatever. I incite… — William Klein Copy Share Image
A lot of the stuff that I see, because it's part of the work that I do, is look at pictures and… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Poetry is like a portrait of a moment or person, and the poem is almost like looking at a photograph; it slaps… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count. We still don't like to admit the war was… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
It frustrates and fascinates me that we'll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets,… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
One has the impression that something is stirring inside [photographs] - it is as if one can hear little cries of despair,… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I work in several different groups of pictures which act on and with each other - ranging from several abstracted manners to… — Ralph Eugene Meatyard Copy Share Image
“We weren’t happy together but we lived in a state of easy, mild contentment. We shared everything except the stupid fucking secret… — Jon Gresham Copy Share Image
Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Our lives look a lot more interesting when they’re filtered through the sexy Facebook interface. We star in our own movies, we… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
We sort of understand how painkillers work. You take one, and it reduces your headache. We don't understand how photographs work. And… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
The physical thing of having a man following you around all day trying to take your photograph - it's eerie. There is… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph. — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I've never understood all this fuss people make about the dawn. I've seen a few and they're never as good as the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Every photograph that is made whether by one who considers himself a professional, or by the tourist who points his snapshot camera… — Eliot Porter Copy Share Image
The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
Most photographs are of life, what goes on in the world. And that's boring, generally. Life is banal, you know. Let's say… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the… — Larry Clark Copy Share Image
The way that I rationalize making photographs is because you're countering what's offensively mass-produced with something that you just want more people… — Mary Mattingly Copy Share Image
Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person.… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Everything has the potential to be extraordinary, whether an old photograph, a book or a life. If you find it ordinary, you… — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers... have not understood information. What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better… — Vilém Flusser Copy Share Image
I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants in Central Africa Seeing an airplane for the first time,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I have a list of ideas that I want to do for my art series, but I'm always trying to figure out… — Jill Greenberg Copy Share Image
Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage:… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The typical nature photograph shows a butterfly on a pretty flower. The conservation photograph shows the same thing, but with a bulldozer… — Joel Sartore Copy Share Image
I'm trying to photograph an old offshore oil city that is lying in decay in the Caspian Sea, but I've been having… — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
[The photograph is] still a space to reorganize our thoughts about reality and our place in the world. How do you disentangle… — Gilles Peress Copy Share Image
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