Photograph Quotes

I have never taken a photograph without one thought in my head to amuse myself.

I'm interested in photographs that have no personal signature.

The purpose of the photograph is to reveal the love that is felt in a single image.

[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reproduction; it is the model.

A good photograph is one that can't be repeated.

I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.

Ive been criticised for pretty, smiley photographs, but at least someone is happy! In my mind, I am always giving the image to the sitter.

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

I try to photograph my own and society's hypocrisy.

My biggest fear always is that I’ll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to how people are.

There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.

A photograph is a souvenir of life!

What if I said that every photograph I made was set up? From the photograph, you can't prove otherwise. You don't know anything from the photograph about how it was made, really.

To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.

It is the unexpected and the surprise quality of a personal vision, rather than the emotion, which make people respond to a photograph.

My favorite photograph, is the one I will take tomorrow.

It takes me a long time to change. I don't think you can just go out and figure out a bunch of visual ideas and photograph. The change happens in living and not through thinking.

I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination... I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in existence.

The eye is made to see and not to think.... A good photograph is a surprise. How could we plan and foresee a surprise? We just have to be ready.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.

Unless it hurts, unless there’s some vulnerability there, I don’t think you’re going to get good photographs.

Work harder, get closer and be passionate about what you photograph.

Lately I've been struck with how I really love what you can't see in a photograph. An actual physical darkness. And it's very thrilling for me to see darkness again.

Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.

A photograph can look any way.

I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.

You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

Find the most puzzling kind of art you can think of, and then go out and try to approximate it with your camera. Take a photograph that corresponds to it. (Assignment to students.)

I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.

Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars.

It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!

A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.

I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera

A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.

Every photograph is a certificate of presence.

The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment.

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels...

In a Cafe" I watched a man in a cafe fold a slice of bread as if he were folding a birth certificate or looking at the photograph of a dead lover.

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.

My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself.

She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her.

All photographs are far more important than any painting.

To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power.