Best Photographic Quotes
94 Photographic quotes by 76 unique authors
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It wasn't even a matter of what I was photographing, as what had happened to me in the process. When I discovered that I could…
— George Rodger
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Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads…
— Susan Sontag
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Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The ultimate…
— Susan Sontag
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I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my…
— Earl Hines
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The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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The photographer must bear the responsibility for his work and its effect …[for] photographic journalism, because of its tremendous audience reached by publications using it,…
— W. Eugene Smith
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on…
— W. Eugene Smith
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I painted two pictures of myself lately, one of which has rather the true character ... I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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My life is really a history of observing forms and taking in imagery. I don't mean in a photographic way, I mean in a way…
— Jim Dine
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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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I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography—that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as landscape and portrait…
— Joel Meyerowitz
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June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor of the Washington…
— Carl Bernstein
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When setting out on a photographic holiday, always provide yourself with two cameras, one to leave in the train going and the other to leave…
— W. C. Sellar
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I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an…
— Lauren Hutton
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There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it’s the photographer who…
— Weegee
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I am convinced that any photographic attempt to show the complete man is nonsense. We can only show, as best we can, what the outer…
— Arnold Newman
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Poems, to me, do not come from ideas, they come from a series of images that you tuck away in the back of your brain.…
— Carolyn Kizer
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Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the…
— Roland Barthes
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I wish to state emphatically that I do not believe in any sort of handwork or manipulation on a photographic negative or print.
— Alvin Langdon Coburn
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The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the…
— Susan Sontag
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The viewer who sees only a study in the picture of the glass jug illuminated from behind fails to appreciate the masterly composition, the noble…
— Alexander Rodchenko
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Because each photograph is only a fragment, its moral and emotional weight depends on where it is inserted. A photograph changes according to the context…
— Susan Sontag
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Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently disappointed, surprised, unmoved…
— Susan Sontag
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Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in the most literal…
— Howard S. Becker
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For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged…
— Alexander Fleming
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