[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It comes down to risk, again and again. If you risk coming out, if you risk making pictures that aren’t good, you… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
I was an amateur - I am an amateur - and I intend to stay an amateur. To me an amateur photographer… — Erwin Blumenfeld Copy Share Image
I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your… — Frans Lanting Copy Share Image
You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
I was always involved in art and when I went under contract at Warner Bros. at 18, it afforded me the possibility… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
We share a huge visual memory bank, mostly through painting and other images in history. I think when a modern photograph taps… — Chris Hondros Copy Share Image
Kodachrome, it gives us those nice bright colors Gives us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Because each photograph is only a fragment, its moral and emotional weight depends on where it is inserted. A photograph changes according… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it's got lots of accounting going… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
I think a bigger difference with social media is going to be things like the impact Instagram will have for historians. For… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I tell you (dogmatically, if you like to call it so, knowing it well) a square inch of man's engraving is worth… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I think that I had a very clear vision when I started writing cookbooks what I wanted it to be, and that… — Ina Garten Copy Share Image
The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
I have been manipulated, and I have in turn manipulated others, by recording their response to suffering and misery. So there is… — Don McCullin Copy Share Image
I was taken by William Burroughs’ presence and intelligence from the first time I was introduced to him, by Lester Bangs in… — Kate Simon Copy Share Image
I don't know how much a photograph can add to a biography, the way a film or writing or narrative medium could.… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love.… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The changes are part of my writing process. When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I… — Pawel Pawlikowski Copy Share Image
In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
Cameras and lenses are simply tools to place our unique vision on film. Concentrate on equipment and you'll take technically good photographs.… — Jack Dykinga Copy Share Image
The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who… — Stephen Sprouse Copy Share Image
Sometimes, photographs live in our hearts as unborn ghosts and we survive not because their shadows find permanence there, but because that… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
After completing my honours in English, I remember getting a photograph clicked at a promotional booth put up by Vaseline in a… — Raashi Khanna Copy Share Image
Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
While making my picture window photographs, I came to think that every room was like a gigantic camera forever pointed at the… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Does getting closer to the subject make the photograph more intimate? I'm sure it takes more than that. What comes next? The… — Tina Barney Copy Share Image
Obviously, we can see what was in front of the camera, but if a photograph is honestly made, it's a bit of… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
I looked at a lot of photos from Hollywood in the '20s, photographs of silent movies being filmed all over the world… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
You've got a number of things that take place that are peculiar to still photography. One: how a picture looks - what… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When a person looks at a photograph you've taken, they will always think of themselves, their own life experience. They will relate… — Jason Fulford Copy Share Image
Working at the scene of the action, I have adopted Robert Capa's saying: 'If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close… — Micha Bar-Am Copy Share Image
The photograph is a tool used to take you back to a certain point in one's life, to remember a face or… — Idris Khan Copy Share Image
It's always more comforting to know that in any given corner of any room or any location you're on, you can make… — Herb Ritts Copy Share Image
I will just say, appropriation is an intellectual idea until it happens to you. It's a philosophy, and it's got its own… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I have no intention of flattering people. I like wrinkles and crow's feet and flaws, and somebody should know, if I'm going… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people, and how they exist, and how they… — Don McCullin Copy Share Image
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