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519 Photographs quotes by 341 unique authors

I think you reveal yourself by what you choose to photograph, but I prefer photographs that tell more about the subject. There's nothing much interesting… — Mary Ellen Mark
Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid mental images of scenes I cared for and failed to photograph. It is the edgy existence… — Sam Abell
There are no photographs while I'm reloading . — Garry Winogrand
I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them in your hand. — Robert Mapplethorpe
The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them. — Helmut Newton
His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] has told me, urgently and repeatedly, that he thinks my photographs are crap. His exact words were, 'These photos are… — Richard Gere
We pass the billboard and I console myself in two ways. First, I know that most photographs taken are a gamble at best. Second and… — Unknown Author
Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going to make these… — Joel Meyerowitz
I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject at the time… — David Hurn
I am not an artist, and I never intended to be one. I hope I have made some good photographs, but what I really hope… — Cornell Capa
As a professional photographer I take photographs for other people to see - but I want them to see what I see. So I never… — Elliott Erwitt
The best photographs are made by the best people. — Morley Baer
The basic material of photographs is not intrinsically beautiful. It's not like ivory or tapestry or bronze or oil on canvas. You're not supposed to… — John Szarkowski
The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental process that starts… — Roman Vishniac
In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he thinks will make… — John Szarkowski
They were ... pure and unadulterated photographs, and sometimes they hinted at the existence of visual truths that had escaped all other systems of detection. — John Szarkowski
The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy. — Beaumont Newhall
But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity of the viewer… — Sam Abell
While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph. — Lewis Hine
One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time… — Galen Rowell
Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience… — Susan Sontag
Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject. — Victor Skrebneski
...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
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

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