Best 314 quotes in «photograph quotes» category

But I do not know whether the photograph can, or does, say things as they really are. Something has been lost. But the representation is all we have.

But there's something about the simplicity of Auschwitz... there's just nothing. There's just photographs, there's a room full of limbs, a room full of hair, and then you go into the place where the gas chambers were. You walk down these halls and the efficiency of it is so inhuman. The place is so powerful, just for its utter bald, bare simplicity.

Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Every photograph is a fake from start to finish.

Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

[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.

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

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

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

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 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 am what I photograph.

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 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 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 regret the numerous pictures of Brigitte Bardot, but I'd rather have a good photograph of my father.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

I found that while it was interesting to travel around and take the photographs, I would find that I was more interested in the stories behind the photographs. I was more interested in narrative.

If you finish like a photograph, on the other hand, the picture has as much personality as a photograph.

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