Best 314 quotes in «photograph quotes» category

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

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.

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

[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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

I hate red carpet photographs!

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

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 being the subject of photographs.

I have a photograph of my grandfather driving a donkey cart barefoot.

I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination.

I have looked at so many photographs, I can not see them anymore.

I have a terror of things being nice and knowing what to expect. Making a photograph is a license to have experiences that I would not otherwise have.

I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.

I have never been skinny. The thing is, I was in an industry where being athletic was not celebrated. I have friends who are supermodels, and I never had that body. I've never been asked to walk in a Versace show. I was doing the covers of the magazines while they were cruising the clothes down the runway, and then they'd bring me the clothes and I'd have to photograph them.

I'm interested in photographs that have no personal signature.