Best My Pictures Quotes
122 My Pictures quotes by 84 unique authors
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If Im feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.
— James Nachtwey
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I have the gift of neither the spoken nor the written word, especially if I have to say something about myself or my work. Whoever…
— Gustav Klimt
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I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in other people, above…
— Gustav Klimt
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I never want people to be repulsed with my pictures; I always want to attract people.
— David LaChapelle
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My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.
— David LaChapelle
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I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John…
— Galen
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The New York book was a visual diary and it was also kind of personal newspaper. I wanted it to look like the news. I…
— William Klein
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If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing…
— Douglas Sirk
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I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.
— Douglas Sirk
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The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps?
— H R Giger
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The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.
— Norman Rockwell
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I make sure that my pictures are not too erotic and that they always have a trace of humor. I make sure they are ‘in…
— Unknown Author
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My art tends toward the literary. My pictures tend toward the outskirts of painting: But why generalize? It is possible to realize one thing or…
— James Ensor
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I am sometimes accused by my peers of printing my pictures too dark. All I can say is that it goes with the mood of…
— Don McCullin
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I met an Englishwoman in Africa. She said she became a doctor because she saw one of my pictures. That’s all I want – just…
— Don McCullin
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The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.
— Pablo Picasso
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It is only by presenting those portions of the race in my pictures, in the light and backround of their true state, that we can…
— Oscar Micheaux
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I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.
— Howard Hodgkin
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It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very slowly,…
— William Baziotes
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My pictures are never pre-visualized or planned. I feel strongly that pictures must come from contact with things at the time and place of taking.…
— Wynn Bullock
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Photographs are diary entries That's all they can be. Photographs are just documentations of a day's event. At the same time, they drag the past…
— Nobuyoshi Araki
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My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.
— Mario Testino
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Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.
— Richard Avedon
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My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work that has to…
— Leonard Nimoy
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I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories.
— Josef Koudelka
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