Photograph Quotes

Photograph Quote of the day

Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

Doesn't the world inside a black and white photograph seem more real? It's because the real world is losing its color

I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.

A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

I feel it is the heart, not the eye, that should determine the content of the photograph. What the eye sees is its own. What the heart can perceive is a very different matter.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture.

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.

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.

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.

The photograph is an undeniably powerful medium. Free from the constraints of language, and harnessing the unique qualities of a single moment frozen in time.

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent.

We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with the people you photograph.

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best.

In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.

Everyone has a point of view. Some people call it style, but what we're really talking about is the guts of a photograph. When you trust your point of view, that's when you start taking pictures.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!

There are photographs that I don’t take now, that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.

I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

If you don't have anything to say, your photographs aren't going to say much.

I photograph from the heart. I adore little babies and I think that shows. My images are really very positive, very simple, and from the heart. Babies speak a universal language.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants.

When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track.

I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.

If I feel confident wearing something, I think it translates in photographs. It changes my demeanor and posture.

I love the people I photograph. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in the New York Times.

A photograph has picked up a fact of life, and that fact will live forever.

All photography is propaganda.

My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.

If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important as the equipment he uses.

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.