Best Photographs Lines
519 Photographs quotes by 341 unique authors
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The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.
— Paul Theroux
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I was making photographs of the world long before I was a photographer.
— Unknown Author
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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and…
— Susan Sontag
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In music I still prefer the minor key, and in printing I like the light coming from the dark. I like pictures that surmount the…
— W. Eugene Smith
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My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding.
— W. Eugene Smith
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I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war - the brutal corrupting viciousness of…
— 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 father has made a museum with my cuttings and photographs.
— Andres Iniesta
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Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. The photographs show the…
— Lewis Thomas
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Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.
— Eddie Adams
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I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or monumental places.
— Herb Ritts
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My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention. Even though my work is appearing in magazines I am trying…
— David LaChapelle
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I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take…
— Galen
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If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our…
— Galen
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My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different…
— Galen
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I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't…
— Galen
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I'm working on a speed boat at the moment. Much more exciting. It'll really kick ass, give great photographs for the people in Bible.
— Eddie Izzard
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What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.
— William Klein
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I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it's got lots of accounting going on in it-stones…
— Joel Meyerowitz
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They [photographs] teach you about your own unraveling past, or about the immediacy of yesterday. They show you what you look at. If you take…
— Joel Meyerowitz
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I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and…
— Kit Williams
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I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.
— Fay Godwin
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There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to…
— Jim Rohn
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All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.
— Jock Sturges
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But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.
— Jock Sturges
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