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Photograph Quotes by Duane Michals
- How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and people with a…
- To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.
- Taking the photograph is the easiest part for me
- I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand…
- I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I thought of him,…
- Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this.
- Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.
- Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.
- I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face…
- A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about ecstasy. What is…
- Photographers tend not to photograph what they can’t see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we’re going to go…
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- You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens. — David Bailey
- Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character… — David Bailey
- I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to… — David Bailey
- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
- A good photograph is knowing where to stand. — Ansel Adams
- There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. — Ansel Adams
- A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. — Ansel Adams
- A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. — Ansel Adams
- Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. — Ansel Adams