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An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive.

A photograph gives us the naked truth,which has to be clothed by the imagination.

A photograph has edges the world does not.

A photograph is a moment when you press the button. It will never come back.

A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking.

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

A photograph is a photograph. When I am making a picture I am just interested in making a very interesting photograph. I don't care where it's going to go.

A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is like what’s in the picture

A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is.

A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time.

A piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as 'material' as a ton of lead.

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

A photograph to me is always a reminder of how the person was on a certain day in that certain light fixed. When I look at a watercolor of that same person, it seems to me alive, more open than a photograph.

A photograph is a souvenir of life!

A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression.

A photograph is a biography of a moment.

A shudder runs through the viewer of old photographs. For they make visible not the knowledge of the original but the spatial configuration of a moment; what appears in the photograph is not the person but the sum of what can be subtracted from him or her.

At the end of the day, it's only a photograph and if someone is going to get really upset about a photograph, then they have a lot of issues. I just roll with it and see what happens.

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music.

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.

Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs!

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Every photograph is a fake from start to finish.

Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.

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

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

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

[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.

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

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!

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 what I photograph.

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

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.