Photographs Quotes

The camera photographs what's there.

— Jack Nicholson

I always liked taking photographs.

— Antony Armstrong-Jones

Facts cling to photographs like dust.

— Andy Grundberg

“Photographs are just light and time,”

— John Green

All photographs are self-portraits.

— Minor White

“My selfie my life!”

— Ken Poirot

“Photographs last for a lifetime.”

— Winna Efendi

My father has made a museum with my cuttings and photographs.

— Andres Iniesta

To collect photographs is to collect the world.

— Susan Sontag

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

— Ansel Adams

“A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.”

— Amit Kalantri

Photographs have a relevance for things that cannot be said.

— Olafur Eliasson

“Why does anyone take photographs ever? We never look at them anymore.”

— Anthony Horowitz

However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.

— Wright Morris

No new photographs until all the old ones have been used up.

— Joachim Schmid

The collection of photographs is a statement about the relationship of my camera and me.

— Ray Metzker

The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

— Barbara Cook

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of…

— Robert Frank

Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject.

— Victor Skrebneski

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out…

— Irving Penn

“Writing and photographing is not about copying reality and reproducing it perfectly. It's about showing it to others as you see it…

— Katja Michael

The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks…

— Lee Friedlander

I want to take some quite incredible photographs that have never been taken before... pictures which are simple and complex at the…

— Alexander Rodchenko

I'd like the photographs to potentially be meaningful to a wide range of people. They do not grow out of the reportage…

— Torbjørn Rødland

I do not like bad photographs. I don't like to be badly lit. There is a fashion, particularly on stage, for very…

— Joanna Lumley

“Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“We photographers are a despicable bunch. We take photographs. The best of us do not show people as they wish to be…

— Waswo X. Waswo

Photographs are like our children. We put the best of ourselves into them - the best of our vision, our minds, our…

— Maggie Steber

I keep three framed photographs on my desk: the latest school picture of my daughter; a photo of my wife getting her…

— Blake Bailey

I used to have a lovely wallet with lots of different compartments where I kept photographs of my grandmother, grandfather and friends.…

— Neve McIntosh

Though infested with many bewildering anomalies, photographs are considered our best arbiters between our visual perceptions and the memory of them. It…

— Max Kozloff

“In my photographic work I was always especially entranced, said Austerlitz, by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak,…

— W.G. Sebald

We fought in 1974 - that was a long time ago. After 1981, we became the best of friends. By 1984, we…

— George Foreman

“My studio team and I approached the creation of this series with enthusiasm, wit, sincerity and sometimes more than a dash of…

— Waswo X Waswo

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

“And then you leave the memories behind. When you look at the pictures It seems like it was always fun. But you…

— Arzum Uzun

When I climb into my car, I enter my destination into a GPS device, whose spatial memory supplants my own. I have…

— Joshua Foer

“Photographs don’t discriminate between the living and the dead. In the fragments of time and shards of light that compose them, everyone…

— Robert Goddard

When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less "how."

— Garry Winogrand