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519 Photographs quotes by 341 unique authors
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I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.
— Garry Winogrand
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Sometimes I think the only memories I have are those that I’ve created around photographs of me as a child. Maybe I’m creating my own…
— Sally Mann
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A man who loves his wife will love her letters and her photographs because they speak to him of her. So if we love the…
— John Stott
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The aeroplane should open a fruitful occupation for women. I see no reason they cannot realize handsome incomes by carrying passengers between adjacent towns, from…
— Harriet Quimby
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The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs.
— Ken Rockwell
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The list of photographs that I am missing while I sit on airport runways, teach classes or spend hours in the studio makes my head…
— Brian Ulrich
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I'd really rather leave it to others to say what they see in it and to see if I've put something into my photographs beyond…
— Bruce Barnbaum
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Most musicians I know don't just play music on Saturday night. They play music every day. They are always fiddling around, letting the notes lead…
— Henry Wessel, Jr.
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Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they…
— Unknown Author
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The work is primarily subject-driven. All decisions flow from there. The photographs are all made in response to a unique subject, in particular context, at a…
— Gregory Heisler
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I know these will become old stories someday and our pictures will become old photographs and we'll all become somebody's Mom or Dad, but right…
— Logan Lerman
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Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed
— Daniel Gilbert
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Photoshop is useful in many ways but must NEVER be used for the altering of photographs. My assistants and my agency do whatever Photoshop work…
— Elliott Erwitt
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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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Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the…
— 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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In order to understand, it is immensely important for the person who understands to be located outside the object of his or her creative understanding—in…
— Mikhail Bakhtin
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Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly real.…
— Walter Lippmann
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I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)
— Gerhard Richter
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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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We chose the most interesting image available to us to illustrate the theme of the cover, which is what we always try to do. We…
— Jon Meacham
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He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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And no photographs taken with the aid of flash light, either, if only out of respect for the actual light - even when there isn't…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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It is the purpose of life that each of us strives to become actually what he or she is potentially. Each photographer, then, should be…
— David Hurn
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