Able Quote by Ralph Eugene Meatyard Download Open image “I think I have been able to eliminate the idea of a third person: the Intruding Photographer.” — Ralph Eugene Meatyard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Able Has beens Ideas Persons Photographer Photography Thinking Third person Thirds
Photography has always been capable of manipulation. Even more subtle and more invidious is the fact that any time you put a frame to… — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very often I'm… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
“To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.” — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I am benefiting from someone else's tragedy. This idea haunts me. It's something I have to reckon with every day because I know that if I ever allowed genuine compassion to be overtaken by personal ambition, I will have sold my soul. The only way I can justify my role… — James Nachtwey Copy Share
It's very difficult when there are pictures taken on the red carpet. I find those things so terrifying that another persona just kicks in.… — Joely Richardson Copy Share Image
Though infested with many bewildering anomalies, photographs are considered our best arbiters between our visual perceptions and the memory of them. It is not… — Max Kozloff Copy Share Image
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I often try to photograph things about a person that are not visible. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
“There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer” — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
I've always viewed myself as a behind-the-scenes person rather than in front of the camera. — Tommy Mottola Copy Share Image
I work in several different groups of pictures which act on and with each other - ranging from several abstracted manners to a form… — Ralph Eugene Meatyard Copy Share Image
I found out that I could not choose a subject, throw it out of focus, and then have a good picture. I found that… — Ralph Eugene Meatyard Copy Share Image
... if [a photograph is] unbelievably real it becomes superreal or another kind of super real, better than real... [it] also can be, I… — Ralph Eugene Meatyard Copy Share Image
I like the obvious statement, although some people might wish to think they aren't there, that they will go away with time. — Ralph Eugene Meatyard Copy Share Image
I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion… — Ralph Eugene Meatyard Copy Share Image
I want to get people to read stone, tree, so forth & so on through the construction of the picture, to lead them to… — Ralph Eugene Meatyard Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any… — Huey Lewis Copy Share Image
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still… — Nas Copy Share Image
I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share Image
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image