Photographs Quotes · Page 6

Counterterrorism analysts have known for years that al Qaeda prepares for attacks with elaborate 'targeting packages' of photographs and notes.

— Barton Gellman

From birth until I went to art college when I was 19, there are perhaps less than a dozen photographs of me.

— Grayson Perry

I don't really have any faith in anybody enjoying photographs in a large enough sense to matter. I think it's all about…

— Garry Winogrand

There is always something sad about the old photographs, it is because we know that people in the photos have gone forever.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I've been criticised for pretty, smiley photographs, but at least someone is happy! In my mind, I am always giving the image…

— Mario Testino

Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.

— Wim Wenders

I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.

— W. Eugene Smith

There are some old photographs from where if you take anything out, even a chicken or a little bird, the magic will…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“He will miss this quiet full of noise: the nighthawks, the way the woods breathe, the things moving unsuspected through the dark.…

— Lauren Groff

The basic material of photographs is not intrinsically beautiful. It's not like ivory or tapestry or bronze or oil on canvas. You're…

— John Szarkowski

I love looking at old photographs. I don't know if it's something that gets more appealing as one gets older and you're…

— Ruth Jones

Photographs help people look at things they may not be able or may not want to look at. Until you can look…

— Lynn Johnston

“From a good photo, sun rays impinge on your eyes; water drips into your hands; the smell of grass comes to your…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world.…

— Bette Midler

I'm very interested in making the photographs look real, but a lot of them are highly synthetic. They're hybrids, located somewhere between…

— Larry Sultan

You can get anything from Mozilla Firefox-based themes to nature themes to your own photographs.

— Mitchell Baker

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

— David Hockney

It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.)

— Donald Rumsfeld

Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs

— Art Wolfe

Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography.

— Alexander Rodchenko

Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

— Martin Parr

Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.

— Christo

The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

— Susan Sontag

The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant…

— Susan Sontag

My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my…

— Nan Goldin

But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.

— Jock Sturges

The thing is, when you take photographs, you meet a lot of people but you don't actually know anybody. It is very…

— Antony Armstrong-Jones

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

— Susan Sontag

If I’d only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn’t have had to do all the thousands of…

— Saul Leiter

“I can’t defend this position, but I think I take photographs because there are things that nobody would see unless I photographed…

— Patricia Bosworth

Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.

— Sam Abell

Photographs and reality are just night and day. In reality, the information is all there. A photograph is just kind of a…

— Nelson Shanks

The photographs are a visual record of Kachchh as it delightfully exists today, but might change differently tomorrow.

— RMKATTA

“As I wander through my sparse forest of memories, photographs have been my most reliable compass.”

— Yōko Ogawa

“A paparazzi is merely an extremely nosy nobody with a camera—and bills to pay.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I think all photographs lie. They capture such a small amount of a person's personality, if they capture anything.

— Martin Schoeller

Photographs are never records of the way things are; they're records of the way things were.

— John Paul Caponigro

I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.

— Jerry Uelsmann

“When I flick through a family album, I see that people don’t die, they just become photographs”

— S.E. SEVER