Photographs Quotes · Page 7

“Photographs is not the same as just name, is more living. Otherwise, why save photographs? (Marijana to Mr Rayment)”

— J.M. Coetzee

Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something…

— Lee Friedlander

I don't use photographs because photographs don't give me the kind of information I need.

— Alex Colville

To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye.

— Minor White

Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.

— Robert Adams

I've exhibited quite a few of my photographs. I expand them digitally till they're very big. It's an art school thing, I…

— Donovan

I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking…

— Orlando Bloom

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

— Ruth Bernhard

Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.' My relatives seem to drop like flies around me.…

— Matt Roper

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs…

— Susan Sontag

How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and…

— Allan Sekula

Mostly I take photographs in times of research. Whores' Glory was shot in 30 days, 10 days for each segment, but the…

— Michael Glawogger

“Any files I give to the model are downsized (typically 800x1200 pixels)... By not giving out my high resolution files, they cannot…

— A.K. Nicholas

I find it satisfying that what I've done in photography has had so much influence in how people take photographs and what…

— William Klein

A photograph can make you feel so many different things. When you look at war photographs of Vietnam, or something similar, it…

— Mario Testino

Photographs don't 'reveal' much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make…

— Trevor Paglen

“I used to capture the vastness and the immensity of the world and confine it to the limited pages of the parchment.”

— Hark Herald Sarmiento

My wife made me a book of photographs she took of our road trip across the United States. Makes for a good…

— Paul Wesley

The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.

— John Szarkowski

“I savor [my photographs] with the slightly sad joy of reflecting that all this good time is past.”

— Henri Evenepoel

“Photographs are the reflection of untold stories, unseen beauties, unexpressed emotions, and the unheard songs of life.”

— Debasish Mridha

Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something…

— Emmet Gowin

Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.

— Susan Sontag

You can easily take photographs at a wedding - no one would question it. But funerals are different.

— Martin Parr

I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it's something fantastic. They're willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they…

— Cindy Sherman

Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.

— Kate Morton

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this…

— Marla Maples

“I don’t have many photographs of myself – a trait common to most professional photographers”

— William Boyd

Because I was traveling a lot during the '70s, the only thing I could do on the road was take photographs, so…

— Sigmar Polke

The past is always with us, in the form of our photographs, which we feel as we might a rosary, wearing them…

— A. D. Coleman

When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet…

— Lisa Kristine

I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.

— William Eggleston

The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth.

— Leroy Chiao

There are many photographs which are full of life but which are confusing and difficult to remember. It is the force of…

— Brassai

I believe you can use photographs to meditate on and work through things in your life.

— Todd Hido

... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest.

— Lee Friedlander

I know that if I were to take ugly photographs, no one would be interested in looking at them.

— Chris Jordan

“Only lost photographs that were never taken know what my mind speaks of when we are alone together.”

— Daniel J. Rice

I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories.

— Stephen Chbosky

I know plenty of people who do, who get their holidays paid for and in return have their photographs taken on the…

— Max Beesley