Best 314 quotes in «photograph quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

The camera can photograph thought.

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.

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

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

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 act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.

The best photographs are made by the best people.

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

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

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

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

The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.

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

The formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph.

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

The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family is around.

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.

The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.

...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.

The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.

The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

The photograph as an object has a relationship to that which it represents something like the relationship the snake skin has to the snake that sheds it.

The photograph is kind of a proof - a proof that I actually met these people, that they actually have lives, and that they're worth considering.

The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something.

The photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely be identified. A painting of a murder is of no interest whatever; but a photograph of a murder fascinates everyone.

The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.

The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.

[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.

The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.

The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.

[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.

The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.

There are certain restaurants where you should photograph the food rather than eat it. These are great places to bring a narcissistic boyfriend before you break up.

There are no photographs while I'm reloading .

There are particular images that I like. Allegro is composed of a series of still life photographs that has been put to speed. There is so much care that has gone into the composition of the cinematography.

There is a great difference between shooting a photograph and making a photograph.