Photographs are never records of the way things are; they're records of the way things were. — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
I never photograph sunsets and I never photograph moonrises. I'm not interested in what things look like. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
We sort of understand how painkillers work. You take one, and it reduces your headache. We don't understand how photographs work. And… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
Take a random selection of photographs of America in 2012 and 2002 and 1992 and, except for the skinny jeans and the… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air. — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
In a Cafe" I watched a man in a cafe fold a slice of bread as if he were folding a birth… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
The photograph of my brother that is in this album shows a young man, beautiful and perfect in the way of young… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
We do not see everything in the environment in the complete, totally resolved, explicit character of the photograph. We, in fact, prioritize… — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
Properly speaking, global thinking is not possible... Look at one of those photographs of half the earth taken from outer space, and… — Wendell Berry 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
...throughout the history of art it has been art itself - in all its forms - that has inspired art...today's photographs are… — Van Deren Coke Copy Share Image
I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men. — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
“I thought about the word 'profile' and what a weird double meaning it had. We say we're looking at a person's profile… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
My biggest fear always is that I’ll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they cannot deliver. In the company of words, they take on meaning, but they slough off… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Photography is like making cheese. It takes a hell of a lot of milk to make a small amount of cheese just… — Robert Gillis Copy Share Image
Identical twins. I'm glad they're identical 'cause you save money on photographs. That's what I like. Yeah. Here's my little boy. I… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
If you run into a monkey in some idiot context, automatically you've got a very real problem taking place in the photograph. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them. — Paul Emsley Copy Share Image
Good photographs aren't just complex. They are enigmatic. Images are beguiling. And the way they play into our psychology, into our visual… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than… — A. D. Coleman Copy Share Image
“A photograph of poverty is not a photograph but it is a knife that sticks into the hearts of everyman who looks… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I never, never photograph someone getting high to sell clothes. I was called, at some point, the person responsible for "heroin chic".… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
