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519 Photographs quotes by 341 unique authors
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There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.
— Jock Sturges
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It seems to me as natural and necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages or photographs of one's travels.…
— F L Lucas
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I have two pairs of eyes – one to paint and one to take photographs.
— Jacques-Henri Lartigue
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I am fooling only myself when I say that my mother exists now only in the photographs on my bulletin board or in the outline…
— Hope Edelman
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I started out as a fashion photographer. One cannot say that I was successful but there was enough work to keep me busy. I collaborated…
— Saul Leiter
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I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.
— Saul Leiter
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If I’d only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn’t have had to do all the thousands of others.
— Saul Leiter
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British diplomats, constantly exposed to American political-ethical rhetoric, find their professional skills tested to the limits by the need to keep a straight face. For…
— Conor Cruise O'Brien
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Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs.
— Unknown Author
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Modern man receives a large part of his knowledge and general education by way of pictorial impressions, illustrations, photographs, films. Daily newspapers bring more pictures…
— Otto Neurath
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I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.
— Ken Burns
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Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs
— Art Wolfe
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I hate being the subject of photographs.
— Richard Griffiths
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Each time I make a photograph I celebrate the life I love and the beauty I know and the happiness I have experienced. All my…
— Ruth Bernhard
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In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes…
— Wilfred Burchett
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I should be getting photographs of me with my arm around these people like restaurant owners do, because eventually I am going to have to…
— Josh Hartnett
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So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was…
— Gordon Parks
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Visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., for example, I was struck by its marginalization of any other victims apart from the Jews, to…
— Unknown Author
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For me, photographs take their power from memory and emotion. A picture tells its own story, shaped by the mood or insights of the person…
— Robert Keith Leavitt
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The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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If my people are wiped out you must destroy all photographs of us, because future generations will look at our photographs and be too ashamed…
— Unknown Author
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I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.
— Jerry Uelsmann
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My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.
— Georgina Chapman
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The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.
— David Burnett
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A photographer's best pictures are from deep inside him, and also some of the worst. Some photographers enjoy distinguished careers without ever taking personal photographs.…
— Burk Uzzle
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