Photograph Quotes · Page 5

Photographs have a relevance for things that cannot be said.

— Olafur Eliasson

A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.

— Susan Sontag

I photograph [people] as if photographing flowers.

— Mona Kuhn

I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.

— Berenice Abbott

To collect photographs is to collect the world.

— Susan Sontag

I prefer a taken to a made photograph.

— Wright Morris

There are plenty of beautiful girls who don't photograph well.

— Lauren Hutton

While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed…

— Jock Sturges

Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world.

— Bette Midler

The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have…

— Frederick Sommer

We all die twice - once when we actually die and once when no one on earth recognizes our photograph.

— Christian Boltanski

If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.

— Linda McCartney

Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little.

— Mason Cooley

A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of…

— Alison Jackson

As a child, people were always trying to photograph and film me because it's a way for a shy person to find…

— Bruce Weber

I have a photograph of myself when I was 2 years of age, and I don't recognize the person in the photograph.…

— Jamaica Kincaid

To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether…

— Augusten Burroughs

I don't think that there's anything that we shouldn't be allowed to photograph, really, unless there's something that's really deeply harmful to…

— Brady Corbet

A fan once stopped me outside a theatre and gave me as a gift a signed photograph of Sir Laurence Olivier. It…

— David Alan Basche

There are moments that you suffer a lot, moments you won't photograph. There are some people you like better than others. But…

— Sebastiao Salgado

By trying many different approaches, you may slowly reach the point where you say more about yourself than about the objects or…

— Frank Horvat

Every photograph is the result of a physical imprint transferred by light reflections onto a sensitive surface. The photograph is thus a…

— Rosalind E. Krauss

Sometimes I work on film sets. I've done this for 40 years. I always wanted to photograph on the set of an…

— Mary Ellen Mark

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 can remember how I sang - a little more nasal-y back then. Listening to those old recordings is like seeing a…

— Ben Gibbard

If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree,…

— Calvin Coolidge

We wanted to have in Lotus Eaters something that looks really beautiful on the outside but is not necessarily on the inside.…

— Alexandra McGuinness

The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is…

— Elizabeth Edwards

The moment you make a photograph you consign whatever you photograph to the past as that specific moment no longer exists, it…

— Chris Killip

Some of my pictures are poem-like in the sense that they are very condensed, haiku-lik. There are others that, if they were…

— Sally Mann

No matter how physically faint, a photograph involuntarily whisper of something exquisitely carnal. The weeks, the years, whatever stretches of time separating…

— Max Kozloff

My father has made a museum with my cuttings and photographs.

— Andres Iniesta

If you get one photograph that's good from a trip, that's plenty.

— Todd Hido

Everyone looks the same to me in a photograph: stupid.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.

— Errol Morris

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

— John Fowles

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.

— Fay Godwin

The best photographs are made by the best people.

— Morley Baer

I don't need a photograph because you've never left my mind

— Anonymous