Best 314 quotes in «photograph quotes» category

Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.

Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these photographs did.

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

One day the photograph is going to become even more important than it is now.... But I am not particularly an advocate of the photograph.

Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty.

Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.

One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.

Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the very act of looking.

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.

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 two-dimensional. I work in four dimensions.

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.

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.

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

Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.

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

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.

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

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

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.

The best photographs are made by the best people.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

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

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

The camera can photograph thought.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.

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

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

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