Best Photograph Thoughts

1086 Photograph quotes by 531 unique authors

A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts. — Sid Grossman
...throughout the history of art it has been art itself - in all its forms - that has inspired art...today's photographs are so geared to… — Unknown Author
A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent. — Eugene Atget
Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera. — Minor White
I don't know whether we think in moving images or whether we think in still images. I have a suspicion that on our hard drive,… — Jon Snow
To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like… — Susan Sontag
Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed. — Susan Sontag
In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph has… — Susan Sontag
The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art. — Roland Barthes
The Photograph belongs to that class of laminated objects whose two leaves cannot be separated without destroying them both: the windowpane and the landscape, and… — Roland Barthes
Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is… — John Berger
At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us. — Minor White
This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. — Edward Weston
Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real. — Susan Sontag
To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for… — Ansel Adams
It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque. — Dorothea Lange
A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph. — Dorothea Lange
Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know. — Lisette Model
For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination of… — Ruth Bernhard
A thing is not what you say it is or what you photograph it to be or what you paint it to be or what… — Wynn Bullock
The urge to create, the urge to photograph, comes in part from the deep desire to live with more integrity, to live more in peace… — Wynn Bullock
I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject;… — Ansel Adams
I feel all things as dynamic events, being, changing, and interacting with each other in space and time even as I photograph them. — Wynn Bullock
In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but also a feeling… — Wynn Bullock
If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time. — Robert Doisneau

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