Photograph Quotes

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

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

A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.

Only photograph what you love.

A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.

Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs.

The camera can photograph thought.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it's a street photograph

The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.

The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography.

The only thing that gets in the way of a really good photograph, is the camera

There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it.

There are parts of me I only recognize from photographs.

I walk, I look, I see, I stop, I photograph.

Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!!

If you finish like a photograph, on the other hand, the picture has as much personality as a photograph.

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

You should keep a photograph of Mick Lyons on the mantlepiece to keep children away from the fire

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.

This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.

Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with each other.

My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is beautiful. I never take an intentionally mean picture.

Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art.

The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

Perhaps most intriguing of all is that it is possible to photograph what is impossible for the human eye to see - cumulative time.

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes known, a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.

The people that I photographed allowed me to photograph them because they didn't want to be alone, and the truth is I didn't want to be alone making the pictures.

Someone said to me, early on in film school... if you can photograph the human face you can photograph anything, because that is the most difficult and most interesting thing to photograph.

I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.

My chief joy is to photograph the great in heart, in mind, and in spirit, whether they be famous or humble.

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

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.

We all die twice - once when we actually die and once when no one on earth recognizes our photograph.

Photograph each day so we can live forever

I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.

If you want to be a photographer, you have to photograph.

This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.

Photography allows you to be a part of the action and document stories. It is a perfect extension of my body. I can take it pretty much anywhere and tell a story with a photograph.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.

Like an old photograph, time can make a feeling fade, but the memory of a first love never fades away.