Photograph Quotes · Page 69

Any child who has lost a parent probably knows every single photograph in existence of that parent.

— Aisling Bea

“How many times have I photographed this glorious seascape? . . . The late-afternoon rusted tones of the Saudi Arabian mountains on…

— Linda Ruth Horowitz

You all looked so happy together in the photograph. You looked like the perfect family. Is there such a thing anymore because…

— Cecelia Ahern

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

— Arthur Erickson

Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The…

— Leon Trotsky

I met Clinton at a benefit for teachers, which was a very good charity, but I met him for about 90 seconds,…

— Julie Bowen

In some ways, I feel like the strength of animation is in its simplicity and caricature, and in reduction. It's like an…

— Pete Docter

Often I have struggled for days to get the image of the photograph to overlap the spirit I see. It is an…

— Ruth Bernhard

All aspects of photography interest me and I feel for the female body the same curiosity and the same love as for…

— Jeanloup Sieff

I have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whatever. I incite…

— William Klein

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

— Susan Sontag

[My work] includes something about death, and about love, because the photos always have something to do with death. The photograph is…

— Annette Messager

I like as much time as I can get and I'll do whatever I think is helpful to prepare for a role.…

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and…

— Ansel Adams

I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like…

— Dennis Hopper

Photographs are the results of a diminution of solar energy, and the camera is an entropic machine for recording gradual loss of…

— Robert Smithson

You don't make a photograph just with a camera

— Ansel Adams

After many months of writing, it occured to me that it might be possible to photograph, in the flesh, what I was…

— Wright Morris

In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like…

— Roland Barthes

My work has been about making a record of my life that no one can revise. I photograph myself in times of…

— Nan Goldin

We used to say that inside Cecil Beaton there was another Cecil Beaton sending out lots of little Cecils into the world.…

— Alan Jay Lerner

... nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of…

— Walker Evans

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not…

— Gerhard Richter

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

Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.

— Mark Carwardine