Best 314 quotes in «photograph quotes» category

Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.

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.

Life is a photograph too, so thank you,for not removing yourself from the picture just yet.

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

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

l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.

Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

Merging photographs can be more real than the isolated image because reality is so much more rich than just an isolated moment.

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

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident.

My photographs are subjective and personal-they’r e intended to be accessible, to relate to people’s lives... People-their well-being and survival-are the crux of what’s important to me.

My photographs are not just about the instant of movement you capture in the camera. It's much more total, about constant movement that became static.

My photographs recall the memories of the human race.

Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these photographs did.

My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.

My wealth is measured not in money but in photographs, not in quantity but creativity.

Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.

Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty.

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

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.

People aren't really looking at the result when taking a picture on an iPhone. And they don't print it. So to me, it's almost not a photograph. It's like looking in the mirror. It's a tool I don't relate to at all.

Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the very act of looking.

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

Photographs are but one link in a potentially endless chain of reduplication; themselves duplicates (of both their objects and, in a sense, their negatives), they are also subject to further duplication, either through the procedures of printing or as objects of still other photographs.

People photograph everything and nothing - no interaction is deemed to have actually happened unless somebody has a picture of it.

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.

People who take photographs during their whole vacation won't remember their vacation. They'll only remember what photographs they took.

Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.

Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.

Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.

Photographs have a relevance for things that cannot be said.

Photographs are two-dimensional. I work in four dimensions.

Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything.

Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course, the photograph does both.

Practice the mechanics of making photographs until it becomes second nature.

Sometimes you remember your life in photographs that were never taken.

That's who comes to my workshops. I jokingly tell my students that the class could be called "Your photographs: Better.

Take pictures all the time. Don't worry if you take a bad photograph; you learn more by taking a bad picture than a good one. If you don't like it, study it and figure out why you don't like it. You'll learn from your mistake.

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

The cartoon absolutely captures something that acres and acres of copy can't. And even photographs can't.

The best photographs are made by the best people.

The camera can photograph thought.