So much of what we know, and what we think we know, about the land has first passed through someone's lens. The… — Mark Klett Copy Share Image
There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it!… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
What novel - or what else in the world - can have the epic scope of a photograph album? May our Father… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
They [photographs] teach you about your own unraveling past, or about the immediacy of yesterday. They show you what you look at.… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Photographers tend not to photograph what they can’t see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we’re… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
I don't know whether we think in moving images or whether we think in still images. I have a suspicion that on… — Jon Snow Copy Share Image
He splayed a hand out over the photographs, trembling fingers not quite touching the shiny surface, and then he turned and leaned… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon this possibility of freedom - and thus its significance - in… — Vilém Flusser Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We wanted to have in Lotus Eaters something that looks really beautiful on the outside but is not necessarily on the inside.… — Alexandra McGuinness Copy Share Image
The moment you make a photograph you consign whatever you photograph to the past as that specific moment no longer exists, it… — Chris Killip Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is… — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I never thought I was particularly good looking. But when I see old photographs, I realise that I was. I do wish… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
Of course, if you photograph the behavior of women and men at a particular time in history, in a particular situation, you… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree,… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I can remember how I sang - a little more nasal-y back then. Listening to those old recordings is like seeing a… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
When we were kids, growing up in the sixties, the only images we had of ourselves were either still photographs or 8mm… — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
I think that the exactitude of the photograph has a sort of compelling nature based in its power to duplicate life. But… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
My photographs are proof of what happened. When I go to Russia, sometimes I meet ex-soldiers... They say, 'We came to liberate… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
My way in for photographing people is really their work. I'm always interested in what people make, and then I photograph the… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
The decisive moment, the popular Henri Cartier-Bresson approach to photography in which a scene is stopped and depicted at a certain point… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
I go straight in very close to people and I do that because it's the only way you can get the picture.… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
I had taken the photograph from afar (distance being the basic glitch in our relationship), using my Nikon and zoom lens while… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Words alone are inadequate to express spiritual realities. This book expresses the Red Indian spirit because it combines the best photographs ever… — Thomas Yellowtail Copy Share Image
Black and White is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality. My purpose in… — Roger Ballen Copy Share Image
I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto' campaign. I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath… — Harold Feinstein Copy Share Image
I think self-portraits are very difficult. I’ve always seen mine as straightforward, very stripped down, hair pulled back. No shirt. Whatever light… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I personally prefer working digitally because it allows me to work quickly and cleanly. I don't have to buy paint or brushes… — Julie Dillon Copy Share Image
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