Best Photograph Qoutes
1086 Photograph quotes by 531 unique authors
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I don't regret the numerous pictures of Brigitte Bardot, but I'd rather have a good photograph of my father.
— Raymond Depardon
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I photograph only something that has to do with me, and I never did anything that I did not want to do. I do not…
— Josef Koudelka
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Because powerful images are fixed in the mind more readily than words, the photographer needs no interpreter. A photograph means the same thing all over…
— Arthur Rothstein
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There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment.
— Jeanloup Sieff
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I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.
— Barbara Cook
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I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one piece of paper,…
— David Hockney
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If they want a photograph, then just take it.
— Keith Emerson
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I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.
— Shirley Knight
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Photographs don’t lie, but liars may photograph
— Lewis Hine
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Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, we shall, in an emotional sense, acquire an additional dimension...
— Fred Hoyle
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Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing…
— Susan Sontag
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Cartier-Bresson has said that photography seizes a 'decisive moment', that's true except that it shouldn't be taken too narrowly...does my picture of a cobweb in…
— Paul Strand
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Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a…
— Andre Kertesz
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If you want to write you should learn the alphabet. You write and write and in the end you hava a beautiful, perfect alphabet. But…
— Andre Kertesz
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There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make…
— Ansel Adams
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
— Ansel Adams
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
— Ansel Adams
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I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that, if…
— Ansel Adams
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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
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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
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My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most…
— Alfred Stieglitz
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
— Imogen Cunningham
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I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
— Imogen Cunningham
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The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted…
— Lee Friedlander
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The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is learning…
— Edward Weston
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