My Photographs Quotes

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I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the… — Sam Abell
'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of… — Sam Abell
His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] has told me, urgently and repeatedly, that he thinks my photographs are crap. His exact words were, 'These photos are… — Richard Gere
I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject at the time… — David Hurn
I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death. — Joel-Peter Witkin
Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t see. — Emmet Gowin
There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment. — Jeanloup Sieff
My photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. My prints show the world’s constant upsetting… — Alfred Stieglitz
My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has eyes and sees,… — Alfred Stieglitz
My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good… — Richard Avedon
I'd really rather leave it to others to say what they see in it and to see if I've put something into my photographs beyond… — Bruce Barnbaum
I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
In music I still prefer the minor key, and in printing I like the light coming from the dark. I like pictures that surmount the… — W. Eugene Smith
My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding. — W. Eugene Smith
I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war - the brutal corrupting viciousness of… — W. Eugene Smith
I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or monumental places. — Herb Ritts
My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention. Even though my work is appearing in magazines I am trying… — David LaChapelle
I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take… — Galen
But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm. — Jock Sturges
Each time I make a photograph I celebrate the life I love and the beauty I know and the happiness I have experienced. All my… — Ruth Bernhard
I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious. — Jerry Uelsmann
I want my photographs not only to be real but to portray the essence of my subjects also. In order to do that, you have… — Mary Ellen Mark
I have often been asked what I wanted to prove by my photographs. The answer is, I don’t want to prove anything. They prove to… — Lisette Model
My photographs are proof of what happened. When I go to Russia, sometimes I meet ex-soldiers... They say, 'We came to liberate you....' I say:… — Josef Koudelka
My camera, my intentions stopped no man from falling. Nor did they aid him after he had fallen. It could be said that photographs be… — W. Eugene Smith

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