Photograph Quotes

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.

Photographs have a relevance for things that cannot be said.

What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.

I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.

The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of labor.

The trouble with flowers is that invariably, when I'm ready to photograph them, they are not in season.

The more I photograph women, the less it is about transformation. Women are beautiful. All that really matters is enhancing that.

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.

Memories have no life. They're just pale reminders of a time that's gone-like faded photographs.

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

Recently, I can't seem to take a straight photograph without thinking that what I am photographing won't be the final image - like the world in front of me is not good enough or something.

We are judged, not by the photographs we take, but by the photographs we show.

I prefer to think of photography as a never ending journey with infinite possibilities. I love to return to places to re photograph. Nothing is ever the same. The options are endless.

No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph.

Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.

We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.

Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

I believe you can use photographs to meditate on and work through things in your life.

The photograph is not only a pictorial report; it is also a psychological report. It represents the feelings and point of view of the intelligence behind the camera.

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment... when one thing changes into something else.

Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. There’s no sense of the whole. Each image is a mysterious part of something not yet revealed.

I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define the difference once again.

We keep this love in a photograph We made these memories for ourselves Where our eyes are never closing Hearts are never broken And time's forever frozen still

The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, "Gee, I'm glad I have that moment."

Photographs don’t lie, but liars may photograph

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.

To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.

If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of light and time.

One day the photograph is going to become even more important than it is now.... But I am not particularly an advocate of the photograph.

There's no such thing as a bad photograph.

All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.

If you get one photograph that's good from a trip, that's plenty.

I photograph like a documentarian, but I print like a painter

I can't be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make.

I never take photographs myself. I don’t feel like a photographer, more like a recycler

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.

As is often said of photography, this photograph is a frozen moment. A frozen moment is not a moment at all.

I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just snapping at whats in front of you.

A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house. Except for the chrome hooks, he was an ordinary-looking man of fifty or so.

A piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as 'material' as a ton of lead.

What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.

I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.

It seems to me that no one picture can ever be a final summation of a personality. There are so many facets in every human being that it is impossible to present them all in one photograph.

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.

I was out there with the White House press squad, and after his helicopter took off, and the carpet rolled up...This wasn't a photograph that others were taking, but I continued to take pictures.