Best Photographs Proverbs
519 Photographs quotes by 341 unique authors
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The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but ones that are…
— Harry Callahan
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Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.
— Susan Sontag
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Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being said. Photographers, on…
— Howard S. Becker
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I like to look at pictures, all kinds. And all those things you absorb come out subconsciously one way or another. You'll be taking photographs…
— Robert Mapplethorpe
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And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths.
— Leonard Cohen
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Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.
— Al Goldstein
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I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph…
— Stephen Sprouse
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What matters most to me is to take photographs; to continue taking them and not to repeat myself. To go further, to go as far…
— Josef Koudelka
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My photographs are proof of what happened. When I go to Russia, sometimes I meet ex-soldiers... They say, 'We came to liberate you....' I say:…
— Josef Koudelka
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When I first started to take photographs in Czechoslovakia, I met this old gentleman, this old photographer, who told me a few practical things. One…
— Josef Koudelka
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I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in…
— Harry Callahan
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We understand that Nixon's aggression against Vietnam is a racist aggression, that the American war in Vietnam is a racist war, a white man's war...We…
— Jane Fonda
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The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.
— Susan Sontag
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Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.
— Walter Benjamin
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During the mission, Walter Jones, a team member was given a package containing bone fragments by a Lao. The source said they were from a…
— Bo Gritz
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Larry Schwarm's photographs of fire on the prairie are so compelling that I cannot imagine any later photographer trying to do better. His pictures convince…
— Robert Adams
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The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.
— Richard Avedon
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I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.
— Alfred Stieglitz
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My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.
— Annie Leibovitz
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Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.
— Susan Sontag
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We don't take photographs with our cameras, we take them with our hearts and our minds. They are a reflection of ourselves...wha t we are…
— Arnold Newman
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Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged…
— Susan Sontag
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Unless it hurts, unless there’s some vulnerability there, I don’t think you’re going to get good photographs.
— Martin Parr
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You should make photographs with your heart, mind, eye & soul. The capture device is simply there to allow you to transfer your vision to…
— Bill Frakes
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