Photograph Quotes · Page 67

I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition…

— Ken Burns

I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get…

— Elliott Erwitt

Photograph each day so we can live forever

— Andy Biersack

Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something…

— Emmet Gowin

I’ve always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they’re…

— William Eggleston

If you're not going to tell something if you're not going to expose something it's real easy to go in and photograph…

— Kim Weston

In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever…

— Roland Barthes

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. Or they enlarge a reality that…

— Susan Sontag

Since a photograph is frozen and mute, since there is no before and after, I don't want there to be a conscious…

— Gregory Crewdson

My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident.

— Rufus Sewell

It takes me a long time to change. I don't think you can just go out and figure out a bunch of…

— Harry Callahan

... Nothing resembles reality less than the photograph. Nothing resembles substance less than its shadow. To convey the meaning of something substantial…

— Thomas Merton

In my life, I don't wear makeup, I don't care about any of the trappings of the "feminine," or how I look…

— Margaret Cho

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.

— Ansel Adams

I was a fool!" Percy roared, so loudly that Lupin nearly dropped his photograph. "I was an idiot, I was a pompous…

— Anonymous

I photograph people as I find them. But people have issues about how they look.

— Martin Parr

[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation. [Referring to the diverse holdings of the…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

There's something arbitrary about taking a picture. So I can stand at the edge of a highway and take one step forward…

— Stephen Shore

Ideas for songs can come from something as simple as a photograph and letting my imagination run wild on an old photograph…

— PJ Harvey

When I began taking photographs I thought they might work better in magazines, in a journalistic sense, rather than as art.

— Gillian Wearing

Professional investment may be likened to those newspaper competitions in which the competitors have to pick out the six prettiest faces from…

— John Maynard Keynes

And what movies we saw! All the actors and actresses whose photographs I collected, with their look of eternity! Their radiance, their…

— Paula Fox

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

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

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

— Marc Riboud