Photograph Quotes

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.

I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph.

Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.

When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it.

One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.

A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.

A photograph has edges the world does not.

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

I used to take photographs just to remember people.

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

The photograph is a tool used to take you back to a certain point in one's life, to remember a face or a place you once stood. I feel there is always something quite melancholic about a photograph.

The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people, and how they exist, and how they fight for space and time and pleasure.

Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.

The camera itself, the photograph itself, calls up death.

I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.

A photograph permits a first viewing, and then an individual reflection. It solicits participation, and encourages individuality in interpretation. Television is an autarchy, a dictatorship.

The viewer is yet another eye that is part of the compact that makes a photograph what it is.

For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.

But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.

I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.

A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think you can get more than that.

The suburban landscape is alien and strange and exotic. I photograph it out of longing and desire. My photographs are also about repression and internal angst.

What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.

One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming to fill a gap in the drawing.

If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.

There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for the image that has spirit! I don't give a damn how it got made.

I wanted to make photographs in which everything was so complex and detailed that you could look at them forever and never see everything.

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.

I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.

Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes. People use them all the time, leaving their energy and memories behind. It's what's left behind that I like to photograph.

To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know.

Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

If you found yourself in a situation where you could either save a drowning man, or you could take a Pulitzer prize winning photograph of him drowning, what shutter speed and setting would you use?

The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.

If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.

It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.

The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.

Photographs have a relevance for things that cannot be said.

But I do not know whether the photograph can, or does, say things as they really are. Something has been lost. But the representation is all we have.

I am what I photograph.

One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle.