Best 314 quotes in «photograph quotes» category

There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.

The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind.

The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.

The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very very collaborative.

The true authenticity of photographs for me is that they usually manipulate and lie about what is in front of the camera, but never lie about the intentions behind the camera.

The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.

The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.

To make a photograph is already the first artificial act.

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

Time past cannot be stopped, saved, or regained. But a photograph allows you to borrow it.

To go and photograph an airbase is not only to photograph something but it is to insist on one’s right to photograph. You’re flexing that right.

Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.

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

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

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.

What is it that angers us?... We have been tricked. In essence, we have been lied to. The problem is not that the photograph has been manipulated, but that we have been manipulated by the photograph.

Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods.

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

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.

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

We perceive and interpret the outer world through a set of incredibly fine internal receptors. But we are incapable, by ourselves, of grasping or tweezing out any permanent, sharable figment of it. Practically speaking, we ritually verify what is there, and are disposed to call it reality. But, with photographs, we have concrete proof that we have not been hallucinating all our lives.

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

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

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

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

When you're on a movie and the production department says, "We need old photographs of you - your character - when you were 20-years-old." I usually tell them it's in storage or I had a fire. I go back to these old photos and there's never a good photo or they're of times that I'm so glad I'm out of. They have nothing to do with the character that you're playing, so it feels false. That's one of the hardest things for me in terms of looking back.

When I photograph, I try to use my instincts as much as possible. It is when pictures are unconsidered and irrational that they come to life; that they evolve from showing to being.

When I first started learning how to take photographs, you had to spend the first six months figuring out what an f-stop was. Now you just go and take pictures.

[When I photograph] I project what I'm not. What I would like to be.

With every (informative) photograph, the photographic program becomes poorer by one possibility while the photographic universe becomes richer by one realization.

Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it?

You can carry a photograph with you on a thumb drive, and you can make it bigger or smaller - it's a very malleable form of mass production.

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

You can get anything from Mozilla Firefox-based themes to nature themes to your own photographs.

You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you.

You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down.

You can photograph anything. You can be inside, outside, doesn't matter, you're controlling the light. It gives you great flexibility. That was a primary motivation.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera

You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.

You'll reach into your wallet to brandish a photograph of a new puppy, and a friend will say, 'Oh, no - not pictures.

You photograph with all your ideology.

Also, Willie, I dig telling the truth. Words can be twisted but a photo never lies. Sutton laughs. What’s funny? Photographer says. Nothing. Except—that’s pure horseshit kid. I can’t think of anything that lies more than a photo. In fact every photo is a dirty stinking lie because it’s a frozen moment—and time can’t be frozen. Some of the biggest lies I’ve ever run across have been photos. Some of them were of me.

A good photograph never belongs to the past; every time you look at it, it is with you, it is alive and it is in the present moment!

A photograph is a cipher for which we consult our own code books.

An image is simply an external memoir of one's life.

A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.

A warm dead photograph is much livelier than a living cold reality!

If her fingers touched the photograph it was hers. If it was out of her reach then it belonged to the room.

Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers, however, have not understood 'information.' What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better they do it, the more they prove the victory of the camera over the human being.