Photography Quotes by Larry Sultan

...when it comes down to making work that really sings, I don't know if I can teach any of it. I don't even know…

— Larry Sultan

Literature especially has an interesting relationship to photography - to observation, to description, to fiction: taking something that you see and elaborating, jamming, and…

— Larry Sultan

...I think finding that room to make pictures that don't jump off the wall as, or detonate as dramatic, either in lighting or in…

— Larry Sultan

Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy's jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that seduce me into believing in the image -…

— Larry Sultan

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

— Larry Sultan

Photography is there to construct the idea of us as a great family and we go on vacations and take these pictures and then…

— Larry Sultan

I love making pictures, even if most of the results are lousy.

— Larry Sultan

Ambiguity is really important to me. Part of the difficulty facing photographers is that almost any subject matter has accumulated a representational history, so…

— Larry Sultan

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

— Larry Sultan