Best Photograph Quotes
1086 Photograph quotes by 531 unique authors
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about…
— Gabriel Byrne
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I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.
— Eric Cantona
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Take a random selection of photographs of America in 2012 and 2002 and 1992 and, except for the skinny jeans and the porkpie hats, you'll…
— Graydon Carter
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To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.
— Nick Cave
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In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.
— Tom Clancy
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I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes…
— Kirstie Alley
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What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to…
— Chuck Close
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A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.
— Chuck Close
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate…
— Sam Abell
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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
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'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
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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
— Diane Arbus
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I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
— Diane Arbus
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Like an old photograph, time can make a feeling fade, but the memory of a first love never fades away.
— Tim McGraw
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When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and…
— Weegee
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Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.
— Elisabeth of Wied
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How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!
— Jules Renard
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An essential part of any successful action on the part of the United States is an understanding on the part of the people of America…
— George C. Marshall
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When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!
— Ted Grant
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The typical nature photograph shows a butterfly on a pretty flower. The conservation photograph shows the same thing, but with a bulldozer coming at it…
— Joel Sartore
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I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto' campaign. I now have a…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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