Photograph Quotes · Page 88

If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.

— John Berger

My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself.

— Uta Barth

I am fooling only myself when I say that my mother exists now only in the photographs on my bulletin board or…

— Hope Edelman

The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education…

— Aaron Scharf

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a…

— Alan Moore

And that desire-the strong desire to take pictures-is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing.…

— Sam Abell

And then the work bears a strong sense of leave-taking for me personally. It ends the work I began in the 1960s…

— Gerhard Richter

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

But I do not know whether the photograph can, or does, say things as they really are. Something has been lost. But…

— Edward Said

What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.

— Garry Winogrand

We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations…

— Naomi Wolf

All seeing, I think, is painful. Every photograph is a little sting, a hurt inflicted in its subject, but even more: every…

— James Elkins

I photograph what I do not wish to paint, and I paint what I do not wish to photograph

— Man Ray

Time past cannot be stopped, saved, or regained. But a photograph allows you to borrow it.

— Douglas McCulloh

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going…

— Edward Weston

You have your wonderful memories," people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times…

— Joan Didion

Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.

— Robert Frank

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

— Salman Rushdie

I'm pretty open. I'm not afraid of men. I'm not afraid of women. I'm not afraid of sex and sexuality. It's part…

— Mario Sorrenti

There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when…

— Matthew Modine

I find it strangely beautiful that the camera with its inherent clarity of object and detail can produce images that in spite…

— Joel Meyerowitz

What's important to me is that [photographs] have the appearance of being documents of what goes on. I like the illusion of…

— Larry Sultan

I want my photos to be fresh and urgent. A good photograph should be a call to arms.

— Terry Richardson

It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who…

— Paul Caponigro