Photograph Quotes · Page 90

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

— Penelope Lively

I used to take photographs just to remember people.

— Gus Van Sant

Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have…

— Ernst Haas

The photograph, now they are detached from their original surroundings, they are involved in a close world in which they only relate…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

— Franz Kafka

That's who comes to my workshops. I jokingly tell my students that the class could be called "Your photographs: Better."

— Sam Abell

My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the…

— Sam Abell

I don't photograph for other people. I love an audience, mind you. Once I've got them there, then I love an audience.…

— Brett Weston

When students scoff at the idea of a magical relation between a picture and what it represents, ask them to take a…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

I like to talk to people and, obviously, to photograph them.

— Douglas Kirkland

A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people,…

— Susan Sontag

I looked at a lot of photos from Hollywood in the '20s, photographs of silent movies being filmed all over the world…

— Michel Hazanavicius

I don't think it is even possible to define what a good photograph is, so it is difficult to instruct anybody how…

— Michael Kenna

A [spatial, temporal] work had only to be exhibited in a gallery and then written about and reproduced as a photograph in…

— Dan Graham

“Seeing old photographs, we get enamored by the memories we made which will keep tugging at our heart-strings forever and ever...”

— Avijeet Das

No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries…

— Emily St. John Mandel

For me, documentary photography has always come with great responsibility. Not just to tell the story honestly and with empathy, but also…

— Giles Duley

I want to make photographs of very elegant women taking the lipstick off their teeth.

— Cecil Beaton

Robert Vavra is one of these artists, part magician, part alchemist, who is able to create a series of photographs in unforgettable…

— Peter Ustinov

I could feel myself changing physically. It was like something dropped out of the sky. Seeing her on the fire escape had…

— Henry Wessel, Jr

It's always weird doing love scenes. And the thing is, you can't really photograph two people kissing naturally, because then you wouldn't…

— Annabella Sciorra

As humans, we need to question all these notions. What does freedom mean for us? What are our responsibilities? It takes one-250th…

— Stuart Franklin

The photograph is to a great degree evidence of the conversation I had with the person. It's a part of my visual…

— Jamel Shabazz

"Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.

— Ansel Adams