Best 314 quotes in «photograph quotes» category

Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.

Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all.

Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.

Everybody feels like they need a photograph because we're in a generation where, if you don't document it, it didn't occur. So you've got to stop and take a picture with everybody.

Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

Everyone wants to look good in photographs, even us trolls who tell jokes.

[He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph.

Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear.

Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads – as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world

Getting a new passport took me a stupid amount of time. I had to go back five times with different photographs because they kept saying I was smiling, which is against the rules. I was not smiling.

Every photograph is a fake from start to finish.

Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.

For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.

How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was right to say Leonardo only worked from photographs.

How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!

However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.

I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.

I am interested in making photographs which comment on the experience of a place as well as describe it. My position has not typically been one of advocacy for or against any political position. But I regard photographs as commentary, and that includes, at times, taking a specific political viewpoint on an issue.

I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.

I always felt that when I was photographing, I had a psychic need to see this, to photograph this. And I think if somebody else had been doing this work, and if I could have seen these pictures anywhere at all, then there would have been no need to make them.

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

I am what I photograph.

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

I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors.... You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in the specific and its relationship to the symbolic.

I don't believe so much in the value of a single picture anymore. I don't really photograph for the wall.

I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland.

I come unprepared to shooting. I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland. I was given very little time to photograph people and I was very scared.

I didn't throw myself off my balcony only because I knew people would photograph me lying dead.

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.

I don't believe that you can talk about a photograph being true or false. I don't think such a claim has any meaning.

I don't even know what an 'It' girl is. As far as I'm concerned, an 'It' girl is somebody who doesn't do anything except go to parties and get her photograph taken.

I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera. I look into the camera and take pictures. My photographs are the tiniest part of what I see that could be photographed. They are fragments of endless possibilities.

I don't regret the numerous pictures of Brigitte Bardot, but I'd rather have a good photograph of my father.

I don't speak emotionally about my pictures. That's for other people to do. I will say that I love my photographs. That's what keeps me going.

I don't want to take photographs that I won't recognize as myself, and myself isn't necessarily just blankly staring at the lens.

I fall in love with almost every person I photograph. I want to hear their stories. I want to get close. This is personal for me.

I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing to do with it.

If I’d only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn’t have had to do all the thousands of others.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

I feel totally responsible for what I see. I feel totally responsible for what I photograph.

I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze.

If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.

If I feel confident wearing something, I think it translates in photographs. It changes my demeanor and posture.

I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination.

If there is pain in my photographs, it relates to the pain in my own existence.

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

If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.

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.

I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture.  I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.

I hate red carpet photographs!